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Web application framework overview

Web application framework overview

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Web application framework overview

- [Female Narrator] The ASP.NET platform offers us three frameworks for building web applications; Web Forms, Web Pages, and MVC. All of them are built on the .NET framework and get the benefits and core features of ASP.NET. Which framework you decide to select for your application really depends on a couple of factors. One factor is the type of application you're building, another is your development experience and skillset, and which development approach you're the most comfortable with. Let's look closer at each of these approaches, starting off with ASP.NET Web Forms. With Web Forms you can build dynamic websites using a rich library of controls and components. The controls encapsulate HTML markup. You can easily drag and drop them on a design surface to create your UI. Web Forms is based on an event-driven programming model where you can subscribe to both control and page life cycle events. The development style used in Web Forms is really similar to WinForms or Windows…

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