Rapid Web Development

VS is an extremely powerful tool. Just the HTML editing can be extremely useful for any HTML work even outside of the VS.


After you've learnt the basic mechanics of web site design with various types of files, folders, and views in the rest of the first half of the semester you will see how easy it will be adding of some very good and powerful controls to the site with a couple of clicks and 5-second tweaking. They will make your  site look professional as well as allowing you to modify it quickly on user's whimsy. This is Rapid Application Development in the flesh. And the basis is in the use of a good integrated development environment (IDE) such as Visual Studio and a Framework (.NET) which gives you a lot of free code hidden behind each control and .NET elements that offer a very rich set of attributes, behaviors, and other code features. VS can support various types of web development. For example, MVC allows for some serious programming with good code separation, other supporting tools cater to various client and server methods of use and distribution. Our goal here is to see how frameworks (predesigned controls and other means) allow for rapid web development which sometimes can be used as is and sometimes will require the use of other .NET and VS tools and methods.


But you need to understand all words and sentences in the book since none of them is just for the good mood. Every skipped sentence is missing knowledge of something that will inevitably haunt you later. A good idea might be to re-read the chapter and experiment more on it. If you will not be comfortable with the material - you will be spending much more time/efforts in the coming weeks.