As the title states, i'm pretty darn new to Sharepoint. I come from a primarily desktop programming background but I've got some google-fu and a moderate amount of knowledge in server-client applications.
What I am trying to do is add a single button to a page that calls some server-side .NET code, which in turn would make a single tcp request to a server of my choice.
Whenever I try to set a <script runat="server"> tag, i get an error page saying no code blocks allowed, and whenever I try to set an <asp:button OnClick=""> i get a no OnClick events allowed.
I've read that a "User Control" would allow me to perform this action, but I have no idea how to create one of those and
