Introduction

Programming for the Web is a vast subject worthy of a whole series of books. While we obviously can't cover everything here, this chapter presents a few web-related recipes for Visual Basic that let you add some useful features to your applications. They will give you some idea of the power of web functionality combined with desktop applications. For a comprehensive collection of Visual Basic web recipes, see ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook by Michael A. Kittel and Geoff T. LeBlond (O'Reilly).