How to create your first ASP.NET page

ASP.NET is an exceptionally remarkable technology for building web applications. To start with you need to first learn:

• From where to download ASP.NET premium edition?
• The installation process.
• How to develop your first ASP.NET page?
• How to run and test your ASP.NET page?

From where to get ASP.NET premium edition?

To run ASP.NET pages you need to download and install Microsoft ASP.NET Premium Edition. ASP.NET premium edition contains CLR (Common Language Runtime), .NET Framework Libraries, ADO.NET and compilers for C#, VB.NET and JScript.NET languages.

To download ASP.NET premium edition, go to ASP.NET home page and follow the link which says "click here to download ASP.NET Beta 2". The download is approximately 18 MB in size.

The installation process

The installation for ASP.NET premium edition is quite simple (since there is no documentation and samples) but before starting ASP.NET setup program, make sure that you have closed all open windows and applications.

The setup for Beta 2 works much better than that of Beta 1 and you should be able to install it easily on your system.

Although VisualStudio.NET Beta 2 is available with intellisense technology to help you develop ASP.NET applications quickly but you can even develop the ASP.NET pages using simple Notepad.

The root directory for ASP.NET pages is the same as that of simple ASP pages running under IIS. Let us assume that your root directory for ASP pages is C:\inetpub\wwwroot. You can also substitute it with your real root directory.

Now, make a new directory with name of "NET" under this root directory. This new directory is not needed but it is still better to keep ASP.NET pages separate from ASP pages.

Now, in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\NET folder create a new ASP.NET page with name as firstPage.aspx (notice the .aspx extension). To be able to run both ASP and ASP.NET pages side by side, ASP.NET pages have a separate extension; .aspx.

The installation process

The installation for ASP.NET premium edition is quite simple (since there is no documentation and samples) but before starting ASP.NET setup program, make sure that you have closed all open windows and applications.

FirstPage.aspx- ASP.NET page

Copy and paste the following C# (ASP.NET) code in the firstPage.aspx page and save it:

Running and testing the ASP.NET page:

To run firstPage.aspx page, open your browser and write http://localhost/net/firstPage.aspx in the URL box and hit enter.

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