ASP.NET is the latest incarnation of Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) - a powerful server-based technology, designed to create dynamic and interactive HTML pages for your Web site, or corporate intranet. ASP.NET also constitutes a core element in Microsoft's .NET vision, providing web-based access to an immensely powerful new development environment, .NET; in this respect alone, it's a great leap ahead of all previous versions of ASP.

This book will provide you with a step-by-step introduction to ASP.NET using VB.NET, with plenty of worked examples that will help you to gain a deep understanding of what ASP.NET is all about, and how you can harness it to build powerful web applications.

This book covers:

Creating basic ASP.NET pages

Learning the basics of VB.NET

Understanding the concepts of Object Oriented Programming

Working with Data and XML

The ASP.NET Server Controls

Creating User Controls and Components

Exploring the world of Web Services

Configuring your ASP.NET Applications

The future of VoiceXML technologies, including VoiceXML 2.0