How does the browser interpret an ASP.NET webpage, hosted in IIS?
The first time the webpage is accessed, is something installed in the browser? Or ASP.NET creates "normal" HTML pages?
IIS interprets and executes the ASP.NET code and markup and sends HTML to the browser.
The browser interprets the HTML.
ASP .NET is server side. It executes remotely and delivers standard HTML page to browser
"An ASP.NET page has the extension .aspx. If a browser requests an
ASP.NET page, the server processes any executable code in the page,
before the result is sent back to the browser."
Quoted from w3schools website.
The first time the asp.net page is accessed it is compiled into a .net class (together with the code behind). There is a so called ISAPI filter installed into iis. When you access an asp.net page (a file with .aspx extension) iis will use the ISAPI filter to execute the request using class that has been compiled.
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In my ASP.NET 5.0 project, if i add new cshtml view(from server side templates), will it mean that the Javascript and CSS etc in that view will also be executed on server instead of client's browser? Any help is appreciated.
No, only the C# razor code will be executed on the server. CSS will be rendered by the browser, and JavaScript code will also be executed by the browser. If you have code you want to run on the server, you must use razor. If you want it to run in the browser, use JavaScript. The cshtml extension simply tells the server to look for C# razor code to execute.
I have a simple .aspx file that I want to run in my browser. I have installed IIS, along with all ASP.NET features, on my local machine. I am using USBWEBSERVER as a server to display my web pages.
When I put in the path of the file of my of web page (.aspx file), just like I do with all my PHP pages, I get the source code (instead of the GUI).
How can I set this up so .aspx pages will work on my machine?
I think you have to get a web server that supports ASP.NET. Right now, there's IIS Express, which is free and can host a multitude of technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1038
I m learning asp.net basics. i was going through tutorial at www.dotnetspider.com
and there it is explained browser understands only html content and scripts strictly. So when i create a webform and drop asp controls and run how does my browser understad that control content and displays on its page?
Your browser doesn't understand the ASP.NET controls. ASP.NET understands them. Whenever a web form is request ASP.NET takes the form and converts it into the HTML form and any scripts that are needed and sends them down to the browser.
Using the ASP.NET web controls makes your job easier, you don't have to worry about hooking together a bunch of HTML forms and code. But as the website says, it's all HTML to the user's browser.
Update:
When I say "ASP.NET understand them" I'm really talking about the ASP.NET frameworks and IIS (Microsoft's web server). So the request the User's browser sends out arrives at IIS. It knows from the URL that this is a request for an ASP.NET application. So it uses the ASP.NET code to take the .aspx pages and the .ascx controls and convert them into the HTML response. It then sends that HTML to the User's browser. So ASP.NET (and IIS) sit "in the middle" between the web broswer on the User's computer and the ASP.NET code and pages you write.
i just did found detail so i thought to write it might make it more clear in depth. its goes as
Browser sends request to IIS -> goes to ISAPI dll(written in C++) -> Loads CLR Process where each control have render method finally emitts its html code -> Which browser can understand and display. Please correct me if i m wrong some where.
I have previously used Expression Web with XP and MS Server 2003 and in each case I am able to preview .asp pages in the browser.
I have now transferred to Vista and get the error "this page may contain dynamic content that requires a Web server...."
On the other hand should I wish to preview an HTML page there is no problem.
I am aware that Expression does not support Classic ASP IntelliSense, but I can live with that.....if I have to.
It seems that the (HTML) pages you are able to preview are not being served by a web server.
Are you able to confirm that they are being presented on the http (http://...) protocol and not the local file protocol (file:///...)?
In a javascript file I'm calling an ASP.NET Ajax PageMethod (ASP.NET 3.5), correctly defined in the page class a static method using the WebMethod attribute. This works on my development machine, but on the production server the PageMethod object is undefined when my javascript function is called (clicking a button).
Some debugging info:
Error on Firefox and Internet Explorer
According to Firebug's network tab all external resources are correctly loaded
I'm using jQuery on the same page
The application is deployed using a Web Deployment project
Any idea what's causing the problem?
I found the solution to the problem after having written the question. I'm doing a dirty trick in order to avoid copying the aspx placeholder files (Web Deployment Project) to the server: in IIS I've unchecked the .aspx ISAPI extension option "Verify that file exists".
That seems to be a problem for ASP.NET Ajax. So I created an empty aspx placeholder file and ... now it's working on the production server too. I'll put a warning sign on the question/answer I linked above.