ASP.NET is the latest incarnation of Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) - a powerful server-based technology, designed to create dynamic and interactive HTML pages for your Web site, or corporate intranet. ASP.NET also constitutes a core element in Microsoft's .NET vision, providing web-based access to an immensely powerful new development environment, .NET; in this respect alone, it's a great leap ahead of all previous versions of ASP. This book will provide you with a step-by-step introduction to ASP.NET using VB.NET, with plenty of worked examples that will help you to gain a deep understanding of what ASP.NET is all about, and how you can harness it to build powerful web applications. This book covers: Creating basic ASP.NET pages Learning the basics of VB.NET Understanding the concepts of Object Oriented Programming Working with Data and XML The ASP.NET Server Controls Creating User Controls and Components Exploring the world of Web Services Configuring your ASP.NET Applications The future of VoiceXML technologies, including VoiceXML 2.0