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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005 Copyright © 2006 by Laurence Moroney, Matthew MacDonald (Ed.), K. Scott Allen, James Avery, Russ Basiura, Mike Batongbacal, Marco Bellinaso, Matt Butler, Andreas Eide, Daniel Cazzulino, Michael Clark, Richard Conway, Robert Eisenberg, Brady Gaster, James Greenwood, Kevin Hoffman, Erik Johansson, Angelo Kastroulis, Dan Kent, Sitaraman Lakshminarayanan, Don Lee, Christopher Miller, Matt Milner, Jan Narkiewicz, Matt Odhner, Ryan O’Keefe, Andrew Reid, Matthew Reynolds, Enrico Sabbadin, Bill Sempf, Doug Seven, Srinivasa Sivkumar, Thiru Thangarathinam, Doug Thews All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-59059-563-3 ISBN-10 (pbk): 1-59059-563-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available upon request. Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Lead Editor: Tony Davis Technical Reviewer: Andy Olsen Editorial Board: Steve Anglin, Dan Appleman, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Tony Davis, Jason Gilmore, Jonathan Hassell, Chris Mills, Dominic Shakeshaft, Jim Sumser Project Manager: Richard Dal Porto Copy Edit Manager: Nicole LeClerc Copy Editor: Kim Wimpsett Assistant Production Director: Kari Brooks-Copony Production Editor: Linda Marousek Compositor and Artist: Kinetic Publishing Services, LLC Proofreaders: Linda Seifert and Nancy Sixsmith Indexer: Broccoli Information Management Cover Designer: Kurt Krames Manufacturing Director: Tom Debolski Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 233 Spring Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER, fax 201-348-4505, e-mail orders-ny@springer-sbm.com, or visit http://www.springeronline.com. For information on translations, please contact Apress directly at 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 219, Berkeley, CA 94710. Phone 510-549-5930, fax 510-549-5939, e-mail info@apress.com, or visit http://www.apress.com. The information in this book is distributed on an “as is” basis, without warranty. Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author(s) nor Apress shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this work. The source code for this book is available to readers at http://www.apress.com in the Source Code section. You will need to answer questions pertaining to this book in order to successfully download the code. 5637ch00FM.qxd 12/23/05 11:03 AM Page ii
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C H A P T E R 1  Introducing ASP.NET W hen Microsoft created .NET, it wasn’t just dreaming about the future—it was also worrying about the headaches and limitations of the current generation of web development technologies. Before you get started with ASP.NET 2.0, it helps to take a step back and consider these problems.