Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET

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.

Contents

Chapter 1: Meeting the Challenges of the Web

Chapter 2: Creating a Web Application

Chapter 3: Creating a Web Page

Chapter 4: Using the HTML Controls

Chapter 5: Using the Web Server Controls

Chapter 6: Using the Validation Controls

Chapter 7: Using Data-Bound Controls

Chapter 8: Developing an XML Web Service

Chapter 9: Accessing Relational Data

Chapter 10: Creating a User Control

Chapter 11: Creating a Rendered Control

Chapter 12: Creating a Composite Control:

Chapter 13: Building a Web Application

Chapter 14: Configuring and Deploying a Web Application

Chapter 15: Creating a Web Site

Appendix A Web Design and Usability: Tips and Tricks

Appendix B HTML Quick Reference

Appendix C XML Quick Reference

Appendix D Setting Up Your Own Development Server