Chris Goode & John Kauffman 
Beginning ASP.NET 1.0 with Visual Basic.NET 

What is this book about?ASP.NET 1.0 is the final release of Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP). It is a powerful server-based technology designed tocreate dynamic, interactive, HTML pages for web sites and corporateintranets. ASP.NET is a core element of Microsoft’s exciting .NETvision, building on the strengths of the .NET Framework to providemany new features not seen in previous versions of ASP.This book, entirely revised and updated for the final release, will provide you with a step-by-step introduction to ASP.NET using VB.NET, with plenty of worked examples to help you to gain a deepunderstanding of what ASP.NET is all about, and how you can harnessit to build powerful web applications.What does this book cover?In this book, you will learn how to* Create basic ASP.NET pages with VB .NET* Understand the concepts of Object Oriented Programming* Work with data and XML* Debug and handling errors in your code* Use ASP.NET Server Controls* Create user controls and components* Explore the world of Web services* Optimize performance* Secure your application Who is this book for?This book is aimed at relatively inexperienced web builders whoare looking to enrich their sites with dynamically-generatedcontent, and want to learn how to start building web applicationsusing ASP.NET. Developers who have a little experience withprevious versions of ASP (and are looking to move over to ASP.NET), may also find this book helpful in getting a simple grasp on what ASP.NET is, what it does, and how it can be used. Experience ofbasic HTML is required, but previous experience of ASP or VBScriptis not essential. We’ll be teaching the basics of VB .NET in thisbook, so prior experience of the language is not required.

Table of Content

Introduction.Chapter 1. Getting Started with ASP.NET.Chapter 2. Anatomy of an ASP.NET Page.Chapter 3. Forms and HTML Server Controls.Chapter 4. Storing Information in VB.NET.Chapter 5. Introducing XML.Chapter 6. Control Structures and Procedural Programming.Chapter 7. Event-driven Programming and Postback.Chapter 8. Introduction to Objects.Chapter 9. Shared Members and Class Relationships.Chapter 10. Objects in ASP.NET.Chapter 11. Objects and Structured Data.Chapter 12. Reading from Data Sources.Chapter 13. Manipulating Data Sources.Chapter 14. ASP.NET Server Controls.Chapter 15. Reusable Code for ASP.NET.Chapter 16. NET Assemblies and Custom Controls.Chapter 17. Debugging and Error Handling.Chapter 18. Web Services.Chapter 19. Configuration and Optimization.Chapter 20. ASP.NET Security.Index.