Take Web Application Programming to a Whole New Level. Microsoft's .NET Framework means enormous changes for Web programming. Using Visual Studio's ASP.NET and VB.NET, and a host of established and up-and-coming Internet technologies, you can build cleaner, more powerful Web applications, and you can do it more quickly than ever before. "Mastering ASP.NET with VB.NET" is packed with the vital information you need to get started and build the skills to develop the new generation of dynamic, easy-to-maintain web sites. The coverage includes: using HTML and CSS effectively, creating code-behind classes, making effective use of intrinsic objects, handling files, sending email, writing a Windows service, communicating with other Web Forms, communicating with databases, using XML name space objects, performing transforms with XSLT and XHTML, creating user controls, creating custom controls, writing dynamic client-side code, using DHTML appropriately, creating Web Services, and writing applications that use Web Services.