I've aimed this book at those developers and program designers who are already familiar with VB, and to some degree, with HTML and the Web. This book is not a primer on VB programming, nor will it teach you much about HTML, DHTML, or even about building static Web sites. Instead, it's meant to show you how you can leverage your existing VB skills to create server-based Web applications. The kinds of applications you create with these new tools are up to you.
If you're a VB programmer who wants to move into the world of Internet programming, this book will help you design or redesign your applications so they'll be successful. It won't teach you the low-level details of Winsock programming or the various connectivity protocols, such as HTTP, FTP, or Telnet. But it will show you how to leverage your existing knowledge—the programming language you know (and love) best, VB, and the existing infrastructure—so you can continue to create useful, responsive, and robust programs.
Microsoft uses its Active Server Pages technology to connect VB programs to its Web servers—Internet Information Server (on NT) and Personal Web Server (on Windows 95/98). You don't have to be an expert ASP programmer to read this book, but if you're already familiar with ASP programming, so much the better—you can skip those parts that discuss the ASP object model. In fact, you'll be impressed at how neatly the ASP model integrates into VB.
![Visual Basic Developer[ap]s Guide to ASP and IIS](/icons/blank_book.jpg "Visual Basic Developer[ap]s Guide to ASP and IIS"){kind=icon}