Web Forms

Adding a New Form

To add a new form to the project, select Project->Add Web Form from the main menu or right-click on the project in the Solution Explorer Window and from the context menu select Add->Add Web Form. The dialogue that appears using both the approaches looks like the image below. You also can add a HTML page to the project with the same procedure.

Setting the Startup Form

Consider a Web Application containing more than one page. Setting a Startup form means setting one of the pages in the Application to execute when the application is set to run. To understand that consider the image below.

Notice from the above image, the project Startvbdotnet has more than one Web form. To set the form button.aspx as the start page, select button.aspx, right-click it and select Set As Start Page from the context menu. When you do that, the page buton.aspx is executed and is displayed when you run the application.

Web Page Properties

The table below summarizes properties of the Web page. Properties are listed alphabetically as seen in the properties window.

Property	Description
aLink	Gets/Sets the color of all active links in the page
aspCompat	Gets/Sets whether the page is enabled for ASP compatibility
background	Gets/Sets the background image for the page
bgcolor	Gets/Sets the background color for the page
bgProperties	Gets/Sets the background property for the background image
bottomMargin	Gets/Sets the bottom margin for the body of the page
buffer	Gets/Sets response buffering
charset	Gets/Sets the character set used to encode the page
clientTarget	Gets/Sets user agent string that sets rendering of server controls
codePage	Gets/Sets locale code page of the file
contentType	Gets/Sets HTTP-content type output for the page
Culture	Gets/Sets the culture setting for the page
debug	Enables to compile the page with debug symbols or not
defaultClientScript	Gets/Sets the default scripting language for event handlers
Description	Gets/Sets the description for the page
dir	Gets/Sets the reading order for the page
enableSessionState	Allows to enable or disable session state
enableViewState	Allows to maintain view state across pages
enableViewStateMac	Indicates whether view state should be MAC checked
errorPage	Gets/Sets an error page for unhandled requests
keywords	Gets/Sets keywords for document indexing
language	Gets/Sets the language used for compiling inline code blocks
lcid	Locale identifier
leftMargin	Gets/Sets left margin for the body of the page
link	Gets/Sets the color for unvisited links on the page
pageLayout	Gets/Sets the page layout mode for the document
responseEncoding	Gets/Sets response encoding for content
rightMargin	Gets/Sets right margin for the body of the page
showGrid	Shows grid in grid layout items
smartNavigation	Enables smart IE5 page navigation history
src	Gets/Sets the code behind class to compile
targetSchema	Gets/Sets flavor of HTML used
text	Gets/Sets the foreground color for the page
title	Gets/Sets the title for the page
topMargin	Gets/Sets the top margin for the body of the page
trace	Gets/Sets whether page level tracing is enabled or not
traceMode	Gets/Sets the trace output mode
transaction	Gets/Sets the page transaction semantics
uiCulture	Gets/Sets culture for resource lookups
vLink	Gets/Sets the color for visited links on the page
WarningLevel	Used to handle compiler warnings as errors