This book concentrates on the use of ASP.NET 1.1 and Visual Studio 2003 to build applications for Internet or intranet use, and looks at the possibilities that rich clients bring to both application design and a better user experience. In particular, the authors provide guidance through a range of ideas on how data can be used to drive Web applications, and how that data can be most effectively utilized at each level of the design. They take a practical approach when showing you to build task-specific components, Web pages and Web applications based on a server running ASP.NET.
The book itself focuses on n-tier architecture design and the way it can be coded, using SQL Server as a data source and simple Web server hardware.
