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Getting Started

5 Minute Video

5 Minute Video

ASP.NET Web Forms lets you build dynamic websites using a familiar drag-and-drop, event-driven model. A design surface and hundreds of controls and components let you rapidly build sophisticated, powerful UI-driven sites with data access.

Visual Studio Express provides a free development tool that makes ASP.NET development easy.

Install Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web Free

Chapters

  1. 1. Getting Started
  2. 2. Presenting and Managing Data
  3. 3. ASP.NET Data Controls
  4. 4. Working with Data (Entity Framework Tutorial)
  5. 5. Client Script, jQuery, and Ajax
  6. 6. Routing
  7. 7. Security
  8. 8. Performance and Caching
  9. 9. Internationalization
  10. 10. Deployment
  11. 11. NuGet (Packages)

In this chapter, you'll learn:
The Web Forms model and how to create pages and use controls.

  1. Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms

    By Erik Reitan|

    This tutorial series will teach you the basics of building an ASP.NET Web Forms application using ASP.NET 4.5 and Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. Source included.

  2. What is Web Forms?

    This document provides a brief overview of the ASP.NET Web Forms model.

  3. Installing Visual Studio

    This document describes how to install Visual Studio via download or using installation media.

  4. Creating a Basic Web Forms page

    This walkthrough provides you with an introduction to the Web development environment in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and in Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express.

  5. Code Editing in Web Forms pages

    This walkthrough explains how to use the Visual Studio code editor to write code quickly while helping you avoid errors.

  6. 5 Minute Intro to ASP.NET Web Forms

    By Scott Hanselman|

    ASP.NET Web Forms is the default User Interface mechanism for ASP.NET applications. This video demonstrates the basics of developing with Web Forms.

  7. Page Lifecycle Events

    By Joe Stagner|

    This video explains how to use the rich eventing mechanism provided by the ASP.NET Page lifecycle.

  8. Intro to ASP.NET Controls

    By Joe Stagner|

    Controls driven development can really increase your development productivity. This video provides a basic introduction to the standard ASP.NET controls.

  9. ASP.NET Hosting

    Use this searchable directory of ASP.NET Hosting Providers to find a host that meets feature and cost requirements.

  10. Community

    This page gives you an overview of what’s going on across the ASP.NET community, including with top blog posts, events, forums, and social media.

  11. Introduction to ASP.NET Web Forms

    This article gives you a quick introduction to the programming model used in ASP.NET Web Forms.

ASP.NET Web Forms Books

Microsoft's Jon Galloway recommends these books for learning ASP.NET Web Forms:

Beginning ASP.NET 4.5: in C# and VB

Beginning ASP.NET 4.5: in C# and VB

by Imar Spaanjaars

Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB

Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB

by Jason N. Gaylord, Christian Wenz, Pranav Rastogi, Todd Miranda, Scott Hanselman

Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010

Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010

by Matthew MacDonald