Chapter 1. Getting Started with the Sample Application OBJECTIVES
Become acquainted with the sample application you will build in this book
Learn how to use the application sample code
This book focuses on creating applications in ASP.NET, and to help you get
started creating your own applications as quickly as possible, we've
supplied a full working application that shows off as many ASP.NET features
as we could cram into one application. As you work through the book, you'll
create and study many pages all related to the Northwind sample database
that comes with Microsoft SQL Server. In this chapter, you'll preview the
various pages in the main application as well as those from some of the
subsidiary applications (we couldn't fit everything we wanted to cover into
the one single application). You can think of this chapter as an
orientation to the applications, so you'll be familiar with each chapter's
example before you begin.