This tutorial is an updated and expanded version of the earlier tutorial that is more in line with the final release of .NET 2.0. It includes new samples, coding, approaches and explanations. If you have been using the previous tutorial, there should be little difficulty in transitioning to these new materials.

The tutorial is designed for college-level classes in Web Development; however, it is available to anyone with an interest in learning .NET 2.0 from the ground up. It is not designed as comprehensive coverage of .NET 2.0. It presents features and techniques to apply this Web development framework to produce applications of a generally useful nature. It is a learning resource rather than a reference source.

It assumes familiarity with XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and the fundamentals of Web page design in case of ASP.Net. It also requires basic programming skill. Users should know the rudiments of database design and the Structured Query Language (SQL) as they apply to Microsoft Access databases. All examples run under the .NET 2.0 framework. They run remotely under Windows Server 2003 or locally under Windows XP Professional. Outputs display properly under current versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer with JavaScript and cookies enabled.