Who Should Read This Book

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This book is intended for computer professionals who are interested in learning new and growing technologies. Although someone who's new to application development could get through this book and learn quite a bit, some areas might be a little too low-level. You don't have to be an application development expert to read this book, however. Simply understanding the concepts and principles behind application development and data access will do. ASP.NET is such a departure from traditional Web application development that you don't need to be a code expert to use it. As a matter of fact, if you are an expert, be prepared to do some serious unlearning and breaking of old habits.

Although many of the concepts of Web application development are applicable to ASP.NET, the means to the end have changed dramatically. You need to approach this book with an open mind to learning new and different ways of doing the tasks you've been doing for years . Ultimately, you'll thank yourself because you'll get more done in less time, your applications will be richer and more functional, and they'll perform better.

When we began writing this book, we decided to let you write code in a way that's comfortable for you. This goes hand-in-hand with one of the main ideas behind the .NET Framework ”use the language with which you're most comfortable. For this reason, we've written all the code examples in both Visual Basic.NET and C#. Sorry, we left COBOL.NET out not enough room. You need to learn how to build data-driven Web applications in the language that you prefer, not the language we prefer.

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