The Bungie.net site is the online companion to the wildly successful Halo 2 video game for Xbox, released in November 2004 by Microsoft. The site also acts as the community hub for all things related to Bungie games. Built with the Microsoft .NET Framework, Bungie.net serves up more than 4 million pages per day, accumulating 300 gigabytes of online game statistics per month from more than 1 million games played daily.
In this paper, we will look at the structure of a very simple ASP.NET page and how that page is rendered in the visitor's browser. Then we will look at the Page class, which is the .NET class that all your ASP.NET pages are based on. After that, we will review basic compiler directives that you can place on your page. At the end of the chapter, we will review a simple Quiz ASP.NET page that demonstrates the basics of an ASP.NET page.