Foreword

Before you go much further in reading this book, give yourself a small pat on the back for investing the money, time and effort in learning ASP.NET. Perhaps it is a new technology to you, or perhaps you are familiar with ASP or other programming in .NET. Either way, it’s a great skill to add to your toolbox and increase your value as a developer.

ASP.NET is useful in more ways than one. If you aren’t already a .NET developer, it’s the gateway to learning the framework, and the languages that you can use to program against it. The most common languages, and the ones covered in this book, are C# and VB.NET. Skills in these languages and framework go way beyond web development. You can use them for mobile development with Silverlight, ...

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