Chapter 1. ASP.NET Basics

On the move with ASP.NET

It was a dark and stormy night in Chicago. The kind you expect to see in a black-and-white 1940’s movie. Frank Garrison stood with his back tight against the wall, expecting the worst…. WAIT A MINUTE!!! This is the wrong book for that type of opening. Sorry.

Seriously now. I’m guessing that you are reading this book because you’re interested in learning about Microsoft’s newest web technology: ASP.NET. If you spent any time perusing newsgroups on web design, or any of the zillions of web sites dedicated to the topic of web applications, you probably have heard at the very least a murmur about this mysterious creature.

For the most part, the people talking about .NET are programmers. They speak ...

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