The latest version of the popular progamming tool allows programmers to bring Visual Basic to the Web. With the new release of Microsoft Web development tools, including Visual Basic 5.0, programmers can leverage their existing skills as they bring the advantages of Visual Basic to their Web sites. This book is a guide for experienced Visual Basic programmers, who are both new and experienced with the Internet, to developing Web applications with Microsoft's new suite of tools. Web Site provides actively maintained software demos and sourcecode contained in the book.

After reading Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET, developers will understand how to build and deploy top quality, professionally designed, highly usable Web applications using Visual Basic .NET.

1. Web Fundamentals -- 2. Windows DNA: a framework for building applications -- 3. An Overview of Building Windows DNA Applications with Visual Basic -- 4. Client-Side Programming with Visual Basic -- 5. Building Client-Side ActiveX Controls -- 6. Dynamic HTML Applications -- 7. Integrating Web Browsing Using the WebBrowser Objects -- 8. Getting Started By Understanding ASP -- 9. Building Server Components in Visual Basic -- 10. Advanced Visual Basic Server Components -- 11. Interfacing With Server Services in Visual Basic --12. Introducing Webclasses and IIS Applications -- 13. The Fundamentals of IIS Applications -- 14. Advanced Webclass Techniques -- 15. Meet RDS -- 16. A Guide to XML -- Case Study 1. Message Board Part 1 -- Case Study 1. Message Board Part 2 -- Case Study 2. Web Based Document Management -- Case Study 3. DHTML Applications -- Case Study 4. CGI Integration.

Now programmers can learn how to take full advantage of Visual Basic. This book covers the latest version of Visual Basic, and includes techniques for using Visual Basic and its tools, applications design, and advanced techniques. The accompanying disk includes programs that illustrate how to develop applications using both Visual Basic and Windows.

bull; Demystifies aspects of Visual Basic .NET that are difficult to master, such as remoting, multithreading, reflection, security, and COM interoperability. bull; Contains in-depth coverage of topics barely touched upon in other books. bull; Author is a well-known and respected guru in the Microsoft programming community.