Serious ASP.NET was written for current ASP and Visual Basic programmers wanting to build ASP.NET applications for the Web. It teaches ASP.NET using Microsoft's new and acclaimed Visual Studio .NET IDE, the definitive choice for all professional developers. ASP programmers will learn how to leverage their current knowledge in ASP.NET, which is a completely re-engineered development platform for building Web applications and is an integral part of the .NET Framework, not just a mere upgrade of its similarly named predecessor.