Building ASP.NET Web pages with Microosft WebMatrix, tutoriel & guide de travaux pratiques en pdf.

Why Use WebMatrix?

There are many great web frameworks available for developing dynamic sites, why should you choose to use WebMatrix? Well it has a lot of advantages; let’s have a look at a few of the major benefits here: • Simplicity – Simplicity is the key behind the success of WebMatrix. This is achieved largely by steering clear of some of the massive and hugely-complex architectures that have become prevalent in the last few years. You can add uncomplicated, dynamic server-side code straight inside your web pages, in a way that will be familiar to developers with previous experience of Classic ASP or PHP. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from creating a site architecture which is efficient and useful to you, but in the vast majority of small and medium-sized web applications there is simply no need to add complexity by designing some convoluted cathedral-like code structure which provides no real benefit and slows down development. • It’s easy to learn – The learning curve for WebMatrix is much less steep than the majority of modern web platforms. As you will see as you progress through this book, the simplicity of the framework makes it easy to learn and master. As long as you have a working knowledge of HTML and have done some basic programming in the past, you should have few problems learning WebMatrix. • It’s complete and integrated – Everything you need to develop a complete web site is contained within WebMatrix, a point we will prove when we develop the TechieTogs sample ecommerce application in chapters 9, 10 and 11. This includes a database, scripting language..