I am new to the WebProgramming field, but have had a great deal of experience in programming with VB.net for Windows GUI based programs, and understand the terminology and how things run in the Windows Form world.
However, I am having a hard time transitioning from Desktop Development to Web Development because I am having a hard time wrapping my head around some of the concepts. I wanted to see if I could get a few suggestions from an experienced Web Programmer.
Questions:
1. In Win Desktop Forms Programming, I can extract data by pulling it in from a text file or pulling it down from a web site, and store it locally in a file to manipulate it for my output as needed, however, what is the best practice for this type of thing when doing Web Forms programming?
2. How do you differentiate between a logged-in (authenticated user) and an user that is not logged-in. It appears that what ever I place on the Web Forms, everyone can see all the items (whether or not they are logged-in or not). Can you create pages for logged in users and ones for logged-out users and separate them, Or even specific items on the pages?
3. How do you transition your site from the programming environment, to a live web environment (what files do I need to copy from the local debugging location to the live site? (Like in Win Desktop Forms, you can find your .exe in the BIN directory, and give that to user to run, but I am not finding anything in the BIN directory when programming for Web Forms.)
Sorry for all the newbie questions. Thanks for the help.
