¿Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET¿ is a comprehensive guide to
building Web applications and services using Visual Basic .NET. It is
written especially for experienced Visual Basic programmers who use
Visual Studio .NET for their development work, even those who have never
written a Web application before. Because the .NET Framework simply
blows away the archaic tools previously available to Web programmers,
the authors predict that many Visual Basic programmers who successfully
avoided Web programming in the past will now bring their expertise to
the Web. However, even experienced Web programmers will greatly benefit
from the authors' thorough coverage of the ASP.NET namespaces and their
clear coverage of the ADO.NET classes most important to Web applications
that use relational databases for data storage. All developers will
benefit from the authors' extensive practical advice (based on their
unique professional backgrounds) about how to produce create high
quality code and how to create professional, usable Web sites. After
reading ¿Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET¿, developers will
understand how to build and deploy top quality, professionally designed,
highly usable Web applications using Visual Basic .NET. Author
Information Constance Petersen co-authored the best-selling Visual Basic
4 How-To and has been recognized with the Microsoft Most Valuable
Professional (MVP) award for her contributions to the VB development
community. The creative force within SoftMedia Artisans, she has written
extensively on Web design and usability. Lynn Torkelson, a grizzled
veteran of assembly language and C programming, has extensive experience
using Visual Basic to develop client-server business applications. Lynn
also did tours of duty as a software development manager and as a
manager of software quality. Zac Torkelson began investigating the joys
of programming at the age of ten and gradually intensified his interest.
He soon learned VB5, then VB6, and C++. Zac then began using the Windows
API extensively in his programs. Upon the arrival of the first .NET
Beta, Zac switched to Visual Basic .NET and C#. These days he
particularly likes to program multiplayer online games.
