Microsoft® ASP.NET 4 Step by Step

Acknowledgments

The last time I wrote the acknowledgments for this book, I mentioned how my son, Ted, had written a Father’s Day card for me in HTML. Ted is in college now, and I can remember his searching out and applying for schools during the last couple of years of high school. He did it almost entirely online, over the Web. How different that was from my experience applying to schools!

The Web permeates our social infrastructure. Whether you’re a businessperson wanting to increase the visibility of your business, an avid reader trying to find an out-of-print book, a student fetching homework assignments from a school Web site, or any other producer or consumer of information, you touch the Internet.

Publishing a book is a huge effort. My name ...