E-commerce is not dead! Although the dot-com flameouts of the last year have garnered all the attention, many companies are still building websites that need e-commerce capability. The programming challenges for doing this are immerse. The new. NET framework delivers a whole new set of tools for building complex, interactive Web applications that can be tied into corporate databases. This book covers ASP. NET and SQL Server 2000, and emphasizes the use of the Visual Basic. NET programming language.