The must-have book for experienced Visual Basic developers who need to build enterprise-level Web applications

Written by two well-known and respected Microsoft insiders, this book is essential for today's VB developer who is tasked with building enterprise-level Web applications using the core .NET technologies–– ASP.NET and VB.NET. After a brief overview of the .NET technologies, they launch right into practical information on how to be immediately productive within ASP.NET from an experienced VB programmer's point of view. They also walk you through an enterprise prototype application that accesses an enhanced version of Microsoft's NorthWind Database.

• Changes to ASP.NET development
• Object-oriented changes and enhancements to VB.NET
• Using DHTML and server-side controls
• ASP.NET Pages and Web forms
• Page navigation, validation, data access, and client-event handling using ASP.NET WebControls
• Creating and testing Web services
• Scalable data access with XML Designer and ADO.NET Data Set Designer

Contents

• Getting your feet wet with .NET
• The development environment and language changes
• Object-Oriented changes in Visual Basic .NET
• Introduction to Web application development
• ASP.NET pages and Web forms
• Using ASP.NET Web controls
• Web services : family fun with XML, SOAP, and WSDL
• ASP.NET Data Access Topics
• ASP.NET Web application services
• ASP.NET application : a walkthrough
• Appendix A : .NET framework class library references
• Appendix B : resources