ASP.NET: a beginner's guide

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.

<H3> Chapter 1: Getting Set Up<H3> Chapter 2: Programming Basics<H3> Chapter 3: Programming ASP.NET with Visual Basic.NET<H3> Chapter 4: Web Forms and ASP.NET<H3> Chapter 5: ASP.NET Configuration, Scope, and State<H3> Chapter 6: ASP.NET Objects and Components<H3> Chapter 7: Web Services and ASP.NET<H3> Chapter 8: ASP.NET and SQL Server<H3> Chapter 9: The ADO.NET Connection-Related Objects<H3> Chapter 10: The ADO/ADO.NET Recordset and DataSet-Related Objects<H3> Chapter 11: ASP Transactions and Mail<H3> Appendix A: Answers to Mastery Checks<H3> Appendix B: Visual Basic/JScript Reference<H3> Appendix C: ASP.NET Server and HTML Controls<H3> Appendix D: XHTML 1.0 Reference