Wrox's ASP.Net 2.0 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit
Chapter One
Getting Started
Developing sites and applications for the Web finally comes of age with the release of Microsoft Visual Web Developer
(VWD 2005 Express Edition) and version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. VWD is one of the "Express" products that Microsoft
provides as an expansion of the Visual Studio product line. These are lightweight, easy-to-use, and easy-to-learn tools
aimed at hobbyists, students, and novice developers.
VWD is a lightweight tool for building dynamic Web sites and Web services. While there have
been other tools and technologies around for a long time, the great new features in VWD and
.NET 2.0 make it even easier to build, test, deploy, manage, and extend your Web sites and Web
applications. This chapter starts the process of demonstrating the capabilities of VWD, and
showing you how easy it is to build attractive, high-performance Web sites with ASP.NET 2.0.
In this chapter, you will:
See the completed example application
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