From the course: Learning ASP.NET
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Introduction to Web Forms
- [Instructor] Web Forms is a web application framework built on ASP.net, and it's included within visual studio. Web Forms provide a suite of web server controls to build your applications. This includes controls that are similar to HTML elements like text inputs and buttons. There are also some more complicated controls that connect to data sources and handle data access. Let's look at what happens when an ASP.net Web Forms page is requested. The server controls on the page get processed and render HTML markup to the browser. These controls act as an abstraction so you don't have to worry about creating HTML or dealing with the interaction between the browser and the server. Visual studio lets you drag and drop server controls onto your Web Forms pages in order to create the UI layout. You can then set UI properties and events for the controls. That's how you define the look and feel and behavior of the webpage. You can use any supported dot net language to write the server-side…
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