Visual Studio is the only suitable environment for professional development of .NET 1.1, and it is just about the only choice for developers in Microsoft technology. It is a complex and feature-rich vehicle mainly for C#, VB .NET, and web development, and drawing out its full potential can be a challenge for novice and professional programmers alike.

Pro Visual Studio .NET reveals and demystifies Visual Studio to enable programmers to do their job more quickly and with fewer errors. The authors of this book are all well known in each field of .NET development, and offer their hands-on experience of making the tool work in the real world. They'll show you how to tweak this environment to get the very best out of it, and you'll learn by seeing practical tasks put into, and through Studio, to get the best results.

If you want to build ASP.NET applications that perform well, you need this book. This book will show you how to use the features offered by ASP.NET to develop efficient applications that will make the most of the hardware they run on.

The book covers:

• How ASP.NET concepts relate to application performance
• Designing for performance
• Techniques for maximizing the performance of code
• Using caching effectively
• High performance data access
• Performance Testing (including the ACT system that is integrated with Visual Studio .NET and the free WAS tool)
• Tuning underperforming applications
• Monitoring performance with built in and custom performance counters

The code in this book is presented in Visual Basic .NET

The arrival of .NET has changed the face of web development with Microsoft technologies. With the Visual Studio .NET IDE, you can now move seamlessly from building C# desktop applications to building web applications, with all the facilities provided by the VS.NET environment.

With this book you'll learn the fundamentals of the web environment and how Visual Studio .NET makes it accessible to C# programmers. You'll build a working website that demonstrates all the elements of a C# web application. We'll take a step-by-step approach to each example as we explore the essential technologies and how VS.NET helps us to integrate them into a highly interactive, attractive web application.

For a web site to offer its users an experience that improves on that of newspapers or textbooks, it needs a way to change the information it contains dynamically - and that means it needs access to a data source. Through the combination of ASP.NET and ADO.NET, Microsoft provides everything necessary to access, read from, and write to a database, and then allow web users to view and manipulate that data from a web browser. In this book, we'll show you how it's done.

For a web site to offer its users an experience that improves on that of newspapers or textbooks, it needs a way to change the information it contains dynamically - and that means it needs access to a data source. Through the combination of ASP.NET and ADO.NET, Microsoft provides everything necessary to access, read from, and write to a database, and then allow web users to view and manipulate that data from a web browser. In this book, we'll show you how it's done.

With this book and Web Matrix, you'll be developing your own powerful ASP.NET websites in no time.

You'll start at the beginning, learning how to create graphical web pages in Web Matrix. Then you'll use Visual Basic .NET and databases to add the dynamic features usually seen in expensive commercial websites. You'll finish by looking at some of the expert ASP.NET features — writing our own controls and web services.

Even if you've never programmed before, this book will take you right into the world of professional web development. You'll be amazed at how easy it is and how much you can do.