Summary This chapter demonstrates one of the strongest aspects of Web development, which is inherent distributed development and operating system-independent availability for the end users. Sometime desktop development can become tightly coupled quite naturally. ASP.NET development, by contrast, is by design a great balance of stateful and stateless development and is now open to many operating systems for developers. Web development is popular because it reaches so many people with a relatively small amount of investment. Everyone needs a Web page, and ASP.NET makes this concept easily achievable. The combination of ASP.NET and Web services is ideal for creating a disconnected distributed system that is very scalable and feature-rich in a short amount of time. |