Introduction

Visual Web Developer 2008 is a modern Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that makes it easier for developers to create pages that use Web services, controls, and data. With Visual Web Developer, you can use.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 as a platform to create Web pages with ASP.NET. Web controls in ASP.NET are powerful reusable components to build dynamic data-driven Web pages.

Web Services is the technology of Web 2.0. A Web service is an application programming interface (API) that uses open Internet standards. With Visual Web Developer, you can integrate and create Web services with little coding.

Databases are important to creating robust, data-driven Web sites. From within Visual Web Developer, you can create databases by using ...

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