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.

* Takes the best of a series of C# Web Programming books from Wrox into one great book

* Offers a natural follow-on to the Apress title 'Beginning C#' so that readers can continue building their .NET programming expertise with Apress

Written by an expert teacher and programmer who is recognized in his field, and who is prepared to teach with real-world examples for his audience

Throughout this book we'll be developing a set of solutions (in the form of custom controls most of the time) designed to tackle the more common needs of Web Appli- tion development. These range from simple and self-contained controls, like the Spinner control developed in Chapter 2, to more advanced and complex solutions, such as the Search engine presented in Chapter 14. While developing these solutions, we tried to demonstrate the most varied offering of different approaches as possible. For example, you'll find some controls that use a database for their storage needs while others will...