I'm using a book to teach myself ASP.NET 3.5. I'm using Visual Web Developer 2008 Express to create the pages. The book I'm using so far has been very good. However, I've come to a section that I don't see the point to. He's just discussed HTML forms, prior to use with ASP.NET. And he's discussed the POST and GET methods. So far I understand what he's talking about.
But then he talks about a Postback form. And, I gather, this is a form where the Action attribute specifies the same Web page that submits form. I can see why it's called a Postback - the data is being posted back to the same page. But, I guess I don't exactly see the point to this. And let me say, at this point, I feel I'm being quite obtuse and missing something basic. But if you need to have your page processed by a Web server somewhere, why would you ever have that server be the calling page?....... Unless, the only reason is for testing purpo ...
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