Web-Based User Interfaces

This chapter builds on the ASP.NET concepts presented in the previous chapter. In this chapter we will look at the creation of Web-based user interfaces. Such interfaces typically present combinations of graphical components such as buttons, text fields, drop-down selection boxes etc. Traditionally building such a Web page has involved writing HTML, DHTML, JScript etc. in order to cause forms, tables and other Web page components to produce the desired layouts. However, the use of ASP.NET and the System.Web.UI namespace makes the creation of such Web pages much more akin to the creation of a GUI application as described in Chapters 23, 24 and 25.