Hello World Example Chapter 1

goboomer · January 13th, 2009, 07:53 PM

Hey all I am new to this whole programming thing. I tried the Hello World simple example in Chapter 1 and when I view it in my browser all it shows is the code in the browser. It does not show the date etc.

I have triple checked my code and all of the syntax is correct. Is this a problem with me or my browser. LOL

Thanks for any help this newbie appreciates it!!

alliancejhall · January 13th, 2009, 08:38 PM

Does your code look like the example?

<div>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
<p>Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 on <%= DateTime.Now.ToString() %></p>
</div>

perhaps you misspelled or mistyped something?

Since this is C# everything is CASE sensitive so make sure it reads exactly as above.

And you must view it through a web server (Preferably the Developement Server built into VS and VWD)

in the solution explorer right click your .aspx file and choose view in browser.

goboomer · January 13th, 2009, 08:47 PM

Yes that is how mine looks and I even copied and pasted yours in my page and got the same result. I just don't know what i am missing.

alliancejhall · January 13th, 2009, 08:55 PM

Copy the whole contents of the .aspx file here so we can see what's going on.

You did right click the .aspx file then choose view in browser correct? what browser is it using? the builtin browser, Internet Explorer, Firefox?

goboomer · January 13th, 2009, 09:01 PM

Not sure how to add a file in this forum yet sorry. It opens in IE 7 when I tell it to view in browser.

alliancejhall · January 13th, 2009, 09:05 PM

you don't need to add the file, just copy the text of the file and paste it into here like you would type it normally. You can create a code box by typing

[ c o d e ]
paste the text here
[ / c o d e ]

(just remove the spacing - i did that so you could see what to type otherwise you'd see a code box)

goboomer · January 13th, 2009, 09:11 PM

Thank You for the explanation here is the code.

Code:

<div>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
<p>Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 on <%= DateTime.Now.ToString() %></p>
</div>

alliancejhall · January 13th, 2009, 09:17 PM

can you copy the whole file everything on the .aspx not just the code you supplied

alliancejhall · January 13th, 2009, 09:53 PM

your aspx file should look pretty much exactly like this

Code:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" 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>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
<p>Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 on <%= DateTime.Now.ToString() %></p>
</div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

goboomer · January 13th, 2009, 10:06 PM

mine looks like this: Maybe the problem is I am using VB but that is what the book said though.

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>