Chapter 1 highlights

Languages Many Visual Basic.net C#

MSIL Microsoft Intermediate Language

Namespace A group of similar classes by category

Control Approximately 70 Textboxes Listboxes Radio Buttons Rich Controls – Calendars, etc.

XML Closing Tags <asdf /> <asdf></asdf> Perfect HTML

Objects Objects: Object Hierarchy A thing in object oriented programming Like a noun Object.xxxxxxxxxx Object Hierarchy MyBike.MyTire.MyRadius = 15 I really test heavily on understanding objects

Properties Properties: A characteristic of an object Object.Property Holds a value Adjective or Adverb

Methods Methods: Object.Method(parameter, parameter) What an object does Verb like Parameters are the info the Method needs Black Box: Put info in, get info out

Client / Server Model Always be aware that some of the processing is done by the server, and some by your client (pc, browser). Know which processing is being done by each

Viewstate May be turned off Holds all the info from forms

Partial Classes Classes may be made up of codebehind and presentation pages combined Codebehind page Presentation page “Layers” Also Data Layer

Autoeventwireup Allows IsPostBack and events That way subroutines will be naturally attached to events

Debugging Debug = “true” Trace.warn() Step through, over, into Hover over values