Essential skills for first-time programmers! This easy-to-use book explains the fundamentals of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework. You'll learn to create Web Forms and Web Services and program interactive Web sites and distributed applications. The modular approach of this series--including drills, sample projects, and mastery checks--makes it easy to learn to use this powerful programming language quickly and easily.

David Mercer (Spring Valley, CA) is President of AFC Computer Services, a Web site and Database design company. Dave has been designing databases since 1993 and Web sites since 1995, using a variety of languages including Paradox Application Language, PERL, HTML, VBA, VBScript, and SQL.

Chapter 1: Getting Set Up

Chapter 2: Programming Basics

Chapter 3: Programming ASP.NET with Visual Basic.NET

Chapter 4: Web Forms and ASP.NET

Chapter 5: ASP.NET Configuration, Scope, and State

Chapter 6: ASP.NET Objects and Components

Chapter 7: Web Services and ASP.NET

Chapter 8: ASP.NET and SQL Server

Chapter 9: The ADO.NET Connection-Related Objects

Chapter 10: The ADO/ADO.NET Recordset and DataSet-Related Objects

Chapter 11: ASP Transactions and Mail

Appendix A: Answers to Mastery Checks

Appendix B: Visual Basic/JScript Reference

Appendix C: ASP.NET Server and HTML Controls

Appendix D: XHTML 1.0 Reference