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Visual Studio .NET is, as the name implies, a visual program and if you look down the bottom here, you can see that right now we're in design view, this is a blank form in design view, much like something you'd see in Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia's Dreamweaver for creating web pages. you can also look at the code behind the scenes, if you click this little button that says HTML, and you'll see the HTML that's in this web form web page. And keep in mind, Active Server Pages and Active Server Pages .NET are designed so that the code that you write fits right in with your HTML. With Active Server Pages you might write some VBScript code, calling some ASP objects and place it right inside your HTML file. With Active Server Pages .NET and Visual Studio .NET, your code is actually going to go inside what they call code behind file, it has the same name as your ASPX file, and it has a .vb on the end. It has a .vb because we're working in the template for Visual Basic projects, so our code is going to be written in Visual Basic .NET. Let's go back to design view and we'll start making our application by adding controls to our web form. Easiest way to do that, go to the menu, click on view and go down to the toolbox, there's our toolbox, there's HTML controls we can add, submit buttons, text fields, text areas, password fields, check boxes, radio buttons, hidden fields and so forth, of course labels, but let's go up to web forms, we've got many of the same types of controls, but these are formatted as Web server controls, meaning they have extra capabilities we will get more into that later, but for now let's take a look at what we can do as far as getting these controls on to the web form and setting some of their Properties window. So click on the label control and now on your web form, you can draw a label, and if you still use visual editing programs you might think you could just click inside this control and change the text, that's really not the case though. We need to go to the Properties window box, find the property that's labeled text, click in the content area, first web app, there we go. Click anywhere else and you can see that what you typed in there as the text property for this control, now shows up as the text that's displayed on this label.