ASP (Active Server Pages) is a web development technology that's leapt through several stages of evolution. It was first introduced as an easy way to add dynamic content to ordinary web pages. Since then, it’s grown into something much more ambitious: a platformfor creating advanced web applications, including e-commerce shops, data-driven portal sites, and just about anything else you can find on the Internet. is the latest version of ASP, and it represents the most dramatic change yet. With , developers no longer need to paste together a jumble of HTML and script code in order to program the Web. Instead, you can create full-scale. | THE EXPERT S VOICE IN .NET Beginning inVB 2005 From Novice to Professional Learn how to ovate next generation web applications. with the latest t ersion of Microsoft s revolutionary technology. Matthew MacDonald Apress Beginning in VB 2005 From Novice to Professional Matthew MacDonald Apress Beginning in VB 2005 From Novice to Professional Copyright 2006 by Matthew MacDonald 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 978-1-59059-621-0 ISBN-10 pbk 1-59059-621-8 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 Ewan Buckingham Technical Reviewer Andy Olsen Editorial Board Steve Anglin Ewan Buckingham Gary Cornell Jason Gilmore Jonathan Gennick Jonathan Hassell James Huddleston Chris Mills Matthew Moodie Dominic Shakeshaft Jim Sumser Keir Thomas Matt Wade Project Manager Production Director Grace Wong Copy Edit Manager Nicole LeClerc Copy Editors Jennifer Whipple Kim Wimpsett Assistant Production Director Kari Brooks-Copony Production Editor Kelly Winquist Compositor and Artist Kinetic Publishing Services LLC Proofreaders Lori Bring Elizabeth Berry Indexer Michael Brinkman 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@ or visit http . For information on translations
