C#

C#

The official line is that Microsoft created C# in an attempt to produce a programming language that coupled the simplicity of Visual Basic with the power and flexibility of C++. However, there’s little doubt that its development was at least hurried along by Microsoft’s legal disputes with Sun. After Microsoft’s treatment (some would say abuse) of Sun’s Java programming language, Microsoft was forced to stop developing its own version of Java, and instead developed C# and another language, which it calls J#. We’re not going to worry about J# here, as C# is preferable. It’s easy to read, use, and maintain, because it does away with much of the confusing syntax for which C++ became infamous.

Summary

In this chapter, we started out by introducing key aspects of an ASP.NET page including directives, code declaration blocks, code render blocks, includes, comments, and controls. As the chapter progressed, we took a closer look at the two most popular languages that ASP.NET supports, and which we’ll use throughout this book.

In the next chapter, we’ll create a few more ASP.NET pages to demonstrate form processing techniques and programming basics, before we turn our attention to the topic of object oriented programming for the Web.

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