Summary

This chapter provided you with a brief introduction to Microsoft's new .NET-based web development platform: ASP.NET. In the previous sections, you received an introduction to ASP.NET and a basic understanding of how to create a Web Forms application. This introduction gave you the foundation that you need for the upcoming chapters in which you will learn all you need to know about ASP.NET to create robust web applications for everything from the smallest application need to large, enterprise-class scalable web applications.