Session 3

Last Monday we started working through Chapter 7: Creating Web Applications.
* When you open a new website the basic metadata and html are already in place.
* The .aspx file extension refers to active server pages.
* The top line of the code tells the web page where all the dynamic code is.
* There are 3 possible views: Design (preview page), Split and Source (code only).
* In Solution Explorer the .aspx.vb file is where our VB code will go.
* When you run a Web Application for the first time an error message pops up - leave it as default and click on OK.
* When you run the program it mocks up the webpage in IE, and when you look at the source code extra code has been added in. This comes from the web.config file which never leaves the server.
* It is an excellent place to store sensitive information.
* It is written in XML which is a hierarchy of nodes not code and is written in plain English which makes it the transmission format of choice.