subject: How to Develop a Simple ASP.NET Web Site [print this page] Visual Studio 2008 offers many ways how to develop web sites on ASP.NET. First of all you need it installed. It includes Microsoft SQL Server Express, but you may use full edition of Microsoft SQL Server, in this case it doesn't matter.
ASP.NET is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. ASP.NET released with .NET Framework 1.0 and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. Important to note that ASP.NET is an entirely new technology for server-side scripting. It was written from the ground up and is not backward compatible with classic ASP.
To create a new web site select New Web Site from File menu. In the following dialog make sure that ASP.NET Web Site is selected, than in the location field enter desired project directory. As language you can choose any of two. Now press OK. New web site is created, but almost every web site require database. This tutorial covers how to create basic ASP.NET web site.
To create your database open SQL Server Management Studio Express. It can be downloaded and installed from official Microsoft website (approx. 35 MB).
Important issue is data binding when create web site with data from databes. However, with data binding we may use a separate source, like a database, an XML file, or a script to fill the list with selectable items.
The following controls are list controls which support data binding:
asp:RadioButtonList
asp:CheckBoxList
asp:DropDownList
asp:Listbox
Here is example how to make basic database and another tutorials about how to use data with ASP.NET website.
