C# web page

I am a newbie when it comes to writing an web page in C#.net 2008 or possibly in C#.net 2010.
I do have some experience in modifying C#.net desktop and console applications.
I am basically trying to determine how to setup this first webpage and what are the recomended components to put in this webpage. This webpage will be a link on the company website.
(*Note; There are other webpages being created by contractors that I can not look at right now. The contractors will not give my comapny the code unitl it is production ready.)

On this webpage i perfer to use asp.net versus some of the other methods i have read about on the internet. I prefer to drag and drop components (objects) from the tool kit onto the visual studio.net ide. I do not want to write all the code from scratch. if possible, I would like to use compoents that have lots of features built into them. For example on a desktop application, you can drag and drop an obejct where the various tabs are included in the component for the user to click on.

In this new web applcation the following are some of the requirements:
1. The user will select various items from drop downmenus to find the records they want to updated.
2. This webpage will be the update feature in phase 1. The browser feature of the webpage will occur in phase 2 (look at data). The browser feature wil be a second link to the company webpage.
3. There will be lots of information for the user to enter. there will be lots of dates to enter. Thus i would need some kind of a date picker object.
4. There will be like 6 date fields that tie to one database column meaning invalid date. thus if any of the 6 date fields are invalid,then the invalid date flag needs to be set.
5. I know all the data can not display all on one web page. Thus I may need the user to scroll down the web page or scroll to the side. Is there a good way to handle this situation?

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Sam Hobbs15y ago
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You actually have not said very much about what you are actually trying to do. I suggest looking at the articles in this web site to become familiar with what is available and how things work and such. There are also many good books. You could just dive in and create some projects to play with. In VS, you can create a Web Site and then create pages in it; you can try doing that but I assume that what you want to do for here is to create an ASP .Net Application.
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Sam Hobbs15y ago
I am sorry but I truly do not know what to suggest. Well I suppose that the ADO.NET articles will help. If you can learn about using the Entity Framework in your web applications then that will make them more professional; it might take more time to learn but it will likely save a lot of time in the future. You can bind the entity data to the ASP controls and that can save time.
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jasminie15y ago
Could you give me some good references to start with?
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