This comprehensive compendium provides a broad and thorough investigation of all aspects of programming with ASP.NET. Entirely revised and updated for the Golden Release of .NET, this book will give you the information you need to master ASP.NET and build dynamic, successful, enterprise Web applications.

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In this book, we:

Explain what ASP.NET is, and how it makes building applications even easier
Show how easy it is to work with ASP.NET pages and server-side controls
Access data of all kinds in our ASP.NET pages, and introduce ADO.NET
Examine how XML is an integral part of data manipulation
Use Web Services to provide asynchronous background services to applications
Discuss and demonstrate the ASP.NET application framework
Show how easy it is to build and deploy custom ASP.NET controls
Combine the concepts discussed in the book into an ASP.NET application
Discuss how it is possible to migrate from ASP to ASP.NET