The version above is FLV.

The Panel and PlaceHolder controls serve two different purposes – much like the Label and Literal controls.

My use of Panel controls in EmailForm are correct – they contain markup and other controls. If I wanted to dynamically add the markup and controls to the page, the PlaceHolder would be the correct control to use.

Correct use aside, I wanted a element. Why use a PlaceHolder if you’re going to contain everything in a element anyway?

See above.

I agree. ASP sucks. ASP.NET is much, much better, and in my opinion, it’s better than PHP (I used to be a PHP guy).

The two most challenging aspects of learning anything .NET, in my opinion, are:

1. Getting familiar with with the classes in the Framework Class Library.
2. Learning and getting comfortable with object oriented programming (if you don’t have any OOP experience).

I can only speak from my experience, but the only problem I had in switching to ASP.NET with C# from PHP was finding decent online resources (I switched in 2003). That’s not much of a problem these days.

The first part of this series covered some of the advantages. It’s by no means an exhaustive list. Something I didn’t put into that list is flexibility. One thing I hate about PHP is being completely dependent on the PHP installation in a shared-hosting environment. Unless you have a very generous host, you’re out of luck if you want to use extensions or third party components that require you to recompile PHP.

With ASP.NET, using extensions or third party components is typically completely in your control. You simply add a reference to the components/extensions in your project, upload the DLLs, and you’re ready to roll. There are some exceptions to this; nothing requires a recompilation of .NET on the server, but some components do have to be installed on the web server in order to work correctly. MySQL’s Net Connector is one such component that has to be installed in order to take advantage of all the features.

2008R2, for the biggest improvement/hurdle, is that it is 64-bit only. It can run 32-bit apps through the WoW subsystem, but it is only 64-bit on the hardware level. It includes an updated IIS, ActiveDirectory enhancements, better virtualization support, etc.

If you can run R2, do it instead of regular 2008. I think the only reason they have 2008 still up is for creating legacy applications designed for the 2008 platform (note, the student editions were created for studying, not for actual use).

Anything that causes a postback executes after the Page’s Load event. We haven’t gotten into postbacks for simplicity’s sake, but clicking the button causes a postback. So btnSubmit_Click executes after Page_Load.

Simply Click “Build > Publish” and activate the “only files to run this apllication” button (select a local file path and see what happens).

In detail

You include:

- the compiled .NET assemblies (the bin folder)
- the web.config
- static files (like .css, images etc.)
- uncompiled aspx pages

You do not include:

- C# code files (including code-behind classes of aspx files)
- Project and Solution files
- the obj folder

A free tool like CruiseControl.NET gives you more advanced publishing and maintanance option. You should check that for real-world apps.

Sry, I mean I could relate your lesson with my work.

@Vijay, I have been using .Net for the last 4 years, I just switched from VB.Net to C# 3 weeks ago and actually prefer C# over VB.

@Jeremy McPeak, great screen cast, very thourough.

me too

this is thing what center form:

margin: 0px auto;