Chapter 14: Web Forms

Main Page

    Working with Web Forms
    Working with Web Form Controls
    Saving a Web Application's State
    Web Forms and HTML
    Creating a Web Application
    Running a Web Application
    Using the HTML Editor to Customize Web Pages
    Creating a Multiform Web Project
    Handling Client Events
    Immediate Solutions: Using the System.Web.UI.Page Class
    Initializing a Web Form at Run Time
    Setting Control Layout
    Forcing Event Handling
    Setting Colors in Web Forms and HTML Pages
    Setting Title Bar Text
    Setting Hyperlink Colors
    Setting Page Margins
    Setting Text Color
    Creating an Error Page
    Setting Background Images
    Setting Background Color
    Setting Background Properties
    Setting Content Type
    Setting Search Engine Keywords
    Adding a New Web Form
    Adding a New HTML Page
    Navigating to Another Form
    Redirecting to Another Form
    Writing HTML to a Web Form at Run Time
    Detecting Browser Type and Capabilities
    Embedding Visual Basic Code in Web Pages
    Saving Program Data across Server Round Trips

In Depth

In this chapter, we begin our work with Web applications. One of the most important features of Visual Basic .NET is the ability to create distributed applications centered around the Web, so prepare to be amazed. In this chapter, I'll take a look at creating Web applications with Web forms. This represents quite a change from Windows forms, and there's an amazing amount of programming power coming up.