ASP.NET web pages are known as web forms, but, as Cristian and Wyatt show, the process of building ASP.NET web forms is a lot like composing a castle with Lego bricks! ASP.NET is bundled with hundreds of controls—including HTML controls, web controls, and so on—that are designed for easy deployment within your applications.

Is your latest ASP.NET application Web 2.0 or Web Two-Dot-Slow? Does your site stay strong in times of high traffic? In this practical how-to guide, Jeff and Jon flex their technical muscle to show you how to build fast, responsive web sites that scale as your user base expands.

If you use static images to present graphs and charts online, now's the time to make your efforts more dynamic. In this results-focused tutorial, Pat explains how easy .NET makes the dynamic generation and display of bar charts online.

Are you ready to take off into the wide blue yonder of ASP.NET 2.0? Join Cristian and Zak on this eventful ride: you'll tame the installation process, sink your teeth into two ASP.NET languages, and conquer .NET programming basics with your bare hands. Finally, you'll pull server controls, user controls, master pages, and CSS into the beginnings of an application that will see you land safely - and without casualties - at the start of a brilliant career in ASP.NET programming.

What does ASP.NET 2.0 have to offer? Should you upgrade your existing projects? Will AJAX change the way .NET developers create applications? And what's with ADO.NET 2.0? Expert ASP.NET developer and author Dino Esposito answers these questions, and many more, in this insightful, detailed interview.

The Web.config file can seem like a technical miasma - but once you delve a little deeper, with Ruben's practical guide, you'll be amazed at its flexibility and capabilities! Understand each section of the file and what control it provides with this hands-on introduction.

With ASP.NET and the .NET Framework, it's easy to generate images dynamically. As Peter explains in this hands-on tutorial, .NET classes can be used to generate cool text images and thumbnails on the fly with a minimum of hassle!

Amazon Web Services can push fresh content to your site, and help you make some cash in the process. Use ASP.NET with the Amazon Web Service to query the company's catalogue and return results to your site -- Philip's practical tutorial shows how.

SQL Server 2005 goes beyond T-SQL to provide the full power and breadth of functionality available in the .NET Framework. In this hands-on tutorial, Philip shows how to build stored procedures that host CLR-code using SQL Server 2005 Express.

The open source Mono project has been created to allow developers to code much of the .NET framework in cross-platform executable code. In his introduction to the technology, Philip uses Mono to code in C# for Linux.