Hour 23. Introduction to Web Development
Visual Studio .NET, more than any previous Microsoft technology, offers incredible Web development tools and functionality. In fact, .NET is very much about programming for the Web. Creating Web applications requires a thorough understanding of all the skills you've acquired in this book—and more. In addition to the complexities of programming that you've dealt with, such as creating forms, writing code, and so on, additional concerns exist, such as Web protocols, firewalls, Web servers, and scalability. Teaching you how to create Web applications is beyond the scope of this book. However, it's important that you're at least a little familiar with the concepts and technologies involved with Microsoft's .NET Internet programming strategy. This hour gives you an overview of the .NET Web programming technologies.
The highlights of this hour include the following: