I am using a book called ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed by Stephen Walther, but with the release of VS2010, I am wondering if I ought to just code everything in VS2008, and work around the defaults that come automatically with VS2010 web development?

You get a Default.aspx page of course, along with a code behind page (ASPX.cs or ASPX.vb), an About.apsx page, and a Site.Master page.

On page 62 of the book titled "ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed" the author shows HTML code along with ASP.NET code, combined. He doesn't break apart the code into two separate pages, one for ASP.NET XAML and the other for the actual VB or C# code.

I go ahead and code in two separate pages with my C# code in the code-behind page.

I wonder, and this is my point, if I ought to go ahead with the strictly ASP.NET code onl that comes with the VS2010 defaultsy, or use some HTML along with the ASP.NET XAML code. And, so I show my ignorance now by asking if it is any longer necessary to use any HTML code in VS2010, or can you get by with only ASP code? I haven't gotten into VS2010 web development very far, thus my perhaps ignorant question. It would seem to me that some HTML is still necessary.

I attempted to buy the new book that is an upgrade to my current book, titled (new one) "ASP.NET 4.0 Unleashed", but it won't be released until October 18th of 2010. So, I am a bit in the dark on some of the new things in VS2010 for web development specifically.