Hello World Example Chapter 1

Imar · January 14th, 2009, 04:34 AM

Hi goboomer,

Take a look at this code:

Code:

 
<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
    
        &lt;div&gt;<br />
        &lt;h1&gt;Hello World&lt;/h1&gt;<br />
        &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 on &lt;%= DateTime.Now.ToString() %&gt;&lt;/p&gt;<br />
        &lt;/div&gt;
    </div>
    </form>
<p>
    &nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>

As you can see, all the angled brackets ( < and > ) have been converted to > and < This seems to indicate that you typed the code in *Design View* and not in Markup View. Before you type the relavant code, be sure to click the Source button at the bottom from the code window. That way, the code is no longer "escaped" and will be treated as actual code, not literal content.

Hope this helps,

Imar

alliancejhall · January 14th, 2009, 09:32 AM

That would be the issue... when entering in your vb code in the asp brackets you must do so in the source view and not the design view otherwise the file will render it as plain text and not see you are actually trying to add code to the page.

goboomer · January 14th, 2009, 10:07 PM

Thanks for your help I did not realize that. That fixed my issue.