BOOK DESCRIPTION If you know how to create Windows applications using Visual Basic, you’re ready for this latest edition of our classic web programming book. It will get you off to a fast start with web programming, no matter whether you’re coming to ASP.NET 4.5 with a background in an earlier release of ASP.NET, Java servlets/JSP, PHP…or with no web background at all. In fact, by the end of chapter 5, you’ll know how to use Visual Studio 2012 to develop and test multi-page database applications for the web. But this book is much more than a beginning book. By the time you’re done, you’ll have the professional skills you need to develop bullet-proof web applications for business. You’ll also find that this book does double duty as the best on-the-job reference book that money can buy. Everything you need to know to get going on web development Look at the table of contents, and you’ll see why we say that this book covers what you need to know to develop web applications at the professional level. That includes skills like: