Who Is This Book for?

This book is aimed at experienced developers who have some experience of ASP or Visual Basic. It is not aimed at beginners and does not cover general programming techniques or the basics of programming languages.

Our aim is to cover a conceptual overview of the product, including some of the background theory and explanation of why the product has developed along the lines it has. This is followed by a deeper investigation into the features that developers will use first. We show how to take advantage of the new features quickly and with the minimum of fuss.

Providing that you have used ASP before, and are reasonably comfortable with the concepts, you should be able to use this book without requiring any other reference material (other than the SDK Documentation and Help files provided with the product). You should also be comfortable with the general principles of using components , and the Visual Basic and VBScript languages. Some of the samples are written in other languages, such as JScript and C# (a new language) that are supported by the CLR, but you don't need to be fluent in these languages to be able to use this book.