Chapter 26. ASP.NET 3.5

ASP.NET 3.5 is the latest incarnation of Microsoft's principal technology for developing and delivering websites and web-based applications.

As you saw in Chapter 25, "Building Web Applications," building a modern web-based application with ASP.NET involves working with a range of different technologies around the ASP.NET backbone. The modern web developer needs to be conversant with technologies such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), databases, JavaScript and, in our case, Visual Basic 2008.

Visual Studio 2008 brings all these technologies together underneath one umbrella. Visual Studio 2008 provides web developers with seamless access to the various technologies ...

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