Teach yourself how to write high-performance Web applications with ASP.NET and Visual Basic .NET 2003—one step at a time. This practical, hands-on tutorial expertly guides you through the fundamental tools and technologies, including the common language runtime, Web Forms, XML Web services, and the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1—including new ASP.NET mobile controls. Work at your own pace through the easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises to learn essential techniques. And accelerate your productivity by working with instructive code examples and best practices for ASP.NET Web development with Visual Basic .NET.

Discover how to:

Create a Web application, add a new Web Forms page, and add controls
Manage application state and enable session state
Configure applications and use side-by-side execution
Implement security features in ASP.NET, including new Request Validation
Create Web Forms pages
Delve deeper into server controls—and build your own
Access and bind data
Create and use Web services
Use caching to improve performance
Trace and debug ASP.NET applications
Deploy application manually or through Visual Studio .NET