Foreword

Since 1996, ASP programmers have faced one upgrade after another, often with no extremely visible advantages until version 3.x—it’s been quite a wild ride. Now we have the first significant improvement in ASP programming within our grasp—ASP.NET. Our reliance on a watered-down version of Visual Basic has been alleviated now that ASP.NET pages may be programmed in both Microsoft’s new and more powerful version of Visual Basic or the latest version of C++: C#, which is more Web friendly. ASP.NET allows programmers and developers to work with both VB.NET and C# within the same ASP.NET page. .NET itself is a milestone for Microsoft; it marks Microsoft’s entry into the “run once, run everywhere” compiler market alongside Java and Ruby. ...

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