The arrival of .NET has changed the face of web development with Microsoft technologies. With the Visual Studio .NET IDE, you can now move seamlessly from building C# desktop applications to building web applications, with all the facilities provided by the VS.NET environment.

With this book you'll learn the fundamentals of the web environment and how Visual Studio .NET makes it accessible to C# programmers. You'll build a working website that demonstrates all the elements of a C# web application. We'll take a step-by-step approach to each example as we explore the essential technologies and how VS.NET helps us to integrate them into a highly interactive, attractive web application.

What you will learn in this book: * How to create dynamic web pages with ASP.NET web forms and web server controls

* How to display and manipulate data using ADO.NET and Visual Studio .NET components

* How to persist state in different ways, within the "stateless" web environment

* How to create XML files and XML schema, and how to use them for data transfer

* How to integrate your web applications with others, through web services

* How to make your application more secure, via the security features in ASP.NET and IIS

* How to eliminate bugs and unexpected failures, through effective debugging and exception-handling techniques

* How to improve the performance of your application and prepare it for release