ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated

9. The Page Class and Master Pages In the previous chapter, you saw the controls provided with ASP.NET and how many of the more useful of these controls are used. You also saw some discussion of the ASP.NET page architecture and event mechan...

The HttpRequest, HttpResponse, HttpServerUtility, and HttpContext Classes In most Web programming environments, you access all of the data about a user's request to your Web site, or the response you send back, on the server using the HTTP Request...

The ASP.NET Page Class Much of the code you write interacts with the ASP.NET page through the Page object. The Page acts as a container for the controls you place on your Web Form. It also provides properties and methods that integrate with the co...

Sub-Classing the Page Object The Page class is the base class you will generally use directly in your Web Forms pages and ASP.NET Web applications. However, you can extend the standard Page class if you wishperhaps by adding new methods or just ch...

Working with Master Pages The final section of this chapter looks at a specific feature you can take advantage of when building Web pages and Web sites. You can create a Master Page that contains the boilerplate content for the site and then use t...

Summary In this chapter, you have seen a range of features of the Page class that implements the ASP.NET Web Forms page. You first examined the basic objects that form the basis for HTTP communication and Web server operation: the HttpRequest, Htt...