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ASP.NET Web Forms overview

ASP.NET Web Forms overview - .NET Tutorial

From the course: .NET UI Big Picture: Desktop, ASP.NET and Cross-Platform

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ASP.NET Web Forms overview

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- [Narrator] The ASP.NET Web Forms framework is based on a page-centric architecture. It gained a wide audience in the early days of .NET because it made it easy for desktop developers to create websites using familiar desktop concepts. In the mid '90s, websites were far simpler than the powerful systems we know today. The concept of a web app was still emerging, most sites consisted of static pages with text, images and links. However, some included interactive forms. For instance, Yahoo featured a search box where users could enter a term, click the search button, and send their request to the server to retrieve results. During this period, desktop development saw a surge of new tools and frameworks, tools like FoxPro, Borland's Delphi, and Microsoft's Visual Basic revolutionized the process, making it easy to design a desktop UI with a drag-and-drop designer, wire up event-driven code, and debug the application in a development editor. These tools made it faster and more accessible…

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