ASP.NET Tutorial - Presentation 1

ASP.NET Presentation #1

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Overview of ASP.NET, about IIS & how to create virtual directory

SESSION OBJECTIVES

• What is ASP.NET?

• Overview of ASP.NET

• Benefits of ASP.NET

• What is ASP.NET File?

• IIS

• How Does ASP.NET Work?

• Creating a Virtual Directory

• Web Sharing the Project Folder

• Deleting a Web Project

What is ASP.NET ?

• Creation, deployment, and execution of Web Applications and Web Services

• ASP.NET is a Microsoft Technology

• ASP stands for Active Server Pages

Overview of ASP.NET

• Server Side Scripting

• Language Interoperability

• Browser Independent

• Interactive Web application & DataBase management

• Maintaining State Management

• ASP.NET is a program that runs inside IIS

Benefits of ASP.NET

• Separation of Code from HTML

• Graphical Development Environment

• Update files while the server is running!

• Support for compiled languages

• State management

What is in a ASP.NET File?

• An ASP.NET file is just the same as an HTML file

• An ASP.NET file can contain HTML, XML & scripts

• Scripts in an ASP.NET file are executed on the server

• An ASP.NET file has the file extension ".aspx“

IIS – Internet Information Services

• Internet Information Service

• IIS (Internet Information Services) is Microsoft's Internet

server

• IIS comes as a free component with Windows servers

• IIS is also a part of Windows 2000 and XP Professional

How does ASP.NET work?

• Requests an HTML file, the server returns the file

• Requests an ASP.NET file, IIS passes the request to the

ASP.NET engine on the server

• The ASP.NET engine reads the file, line by line, and

executes the scripts in the file

• ASP.NET file is returned to the browser as plain HTML

Creating a Virtual Directory

• Start, Settings, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Internet Services Manager

• Expand node for computer and default Web site• Right-click Default Web site icon, select New, Virtual

Directory• In Virtual Directory Creation Wizard enter your project

folder name as the alias and enter the folder and path

Web Sharing the Project Folder

• Select the Project folder in My Computer• Right-click, select Properties, Web Sharing, activate

Share This Folder• In Edit Alias dialog click OK

Deleting a Web Project

• Project in IIS Virtual Directory

– Delete the directory

• Project in Web Shared Folder

– “Unshare” it from Properties dialog

– Either Reboot Computer or Stop and Restart IIS

– Delete Folder

Summarywww.guyfromchennai.com

What is ASP.NET?Overview of ASP.NETBenefits of ASP.NETWhat is ASP.NET File?IISHow Does ASP.NET Work?Creating a Virtual DirectoryWeb Sharing the Project FolderDeleting a Web Project