ASP.Net 2.0 Everyday Apps for Dummies
Chapter One
Designing ASP.NET 2.0
Applications
In This Chapter
* Tracing the application-development life cycle
* Getting a handle on systems analysis and design
* Looking at layered architectures
* Designing relational databases
* Designing objects
ASP.NET is Microsoft's platform for developing Web applications. With
the new release of version 2.0, Microsoft has added powerful new features
such as Master Pages and automatic site navigation, which make it one
of the most powerful (yet easy-to-use) Web-development tools out there.
And it's inexpensive. Although the professional versions of Visual Studio will
set you back some, Visual Web Developer Express Edition will cost you only
about $100 and can be used to develop sophisticated ASP.NET applications,
using your choice of programming languages - Visual Basic or C#.
One way to learn ASP.NET is to buy a beginning ASP.NET book. There are
plenty of good ones out there, including (in all due modesty) my own
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