What is this book about?ASP.NET 1.0 is the final release of Microsoft's Active ServerPages (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 usingVB.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 applicationWho 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 whatASP.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.