Beginning Web Programming in VB .NET: From Novice to Professional will teach you the fundamentals of the web environment and how Visual Studio .NET (VS .NET) makes it accessible to VB programmers. You'll build a working website that demonstrates all the elements of a VB web application. Author Daniel Cazzulino takes a step-by-step approach to each example to explore the essential technologies and how VS .NET helps to integrate them into a highly interactive, attractive web application.

In this tutorial guide youll learn how to

* Create dynamic web pages with ASP.NET web forms and web server controls
* Display and manipulate data using ADO.NET and VS .NET components
* Persist state in different ways, within the "stateless" web environment
* Create XML files and XML schema, and use them for data transfer
* Integrate your web applications with others through web services
* Make your application more secure via the security features in ASP.NET and IIS
* Eliminate bugs and unexpected failures through effective debugging and exception-handling techniques
* Improve the performance of your application and prepare it for release