Introduction

A brand new version of ASP has hit the market and all you can think is Great, now I need to learn a whole new development environment again. Well, true, although you have many new additions to learn in the new ASP.NET environment, not everything you learned in ASP development is gone. In fact, if you are familiar with ASP, concepts of the new ASP.NET programming environment will be very familiar to you. And, if you ve never done any ASP programming, you can make use of the Visual Studio.NET environment during development, which will make learning very easy. This chapter gives you a high-level tour of ASP.NET and some of the tools available to you for development.