Introducing Microsoft ASP.Net 2.0

About the Technology: ASP.NET is a leading-edge tool in Web development. According to a recent survey performed by Microsoft, there are 2.1 million professional Web developers and 1.8 million hobbyist Web developers (Developer Sizing, 9/01). According to the latest Dev Tracker report, 54% of Web developers use ASP, and 19% of Web developers use ASP.NET (Dev Tracker Q4, 2002). The ASP/ASP.NET community is therefore an estimated 2.8 million Web developers. The next version of ASP.NET, ASP.NET 2.0, is planned as part of the Whidbey release of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, which is currently slated for fall or winter of 2004. In the meantime, the ASP.NET team will be making the beta widely available--the Tech Preview is slated to be released at PDC, which is scheduled for the last week of October in Los Angeles, CA. This book will have a natural life of approximately one year--from the release of the Tech Preview through to the release of the final product.