i've just come across the first sentence in the book that i don't understand: in the "Introduction to asp .net page lifecycle" (location 7,950 in the kindle version) it says that during the start phase of a page's lifecycle it gets "access to properties like Request and Response that are used to interact with the page's environment" - I don't recognise those properties; properties of what? Maybe they have to do with the HTTP request and response? Maybe if I just read on it'll all become clear...

Hi there,

Simply type Me.Request (VB) or this.Request (C#) in the Code Behind of a Page and you'll see these properties. They provide you access to the current request or response, enabling you to access, say, a query string variable like this (C#)

string id = this.Request.QueryString.Get("Id");

Since this (or Me) is optional here, this works the same:

string id = Request.QueryString.Get("Id");

Hope this helps,

Imar

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thanks Imar, what I wasn't getting is what's meant by the "current response/request" I think it must be the HTTP request/response for the current page?

Yes, exactly.

Imar

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