Most of us have gone online to check our bank account, pay bills, or place an order from an e-commerce web site, and we were probably amazed at how these companies were able to display our personal information on their web pages. Within seconds of entering our user ID and password we can view our records on the screen. This seems like a miracle considering the amount of time you spend creating your web page. At first you might think they have an army of web builders quickly looking up your information in their databases and then creating a customized web page for you. That's not practical, so there might be a secret method they use-and there is. The secret is ASP.NET. Web developers us ASPNET to perform tasks normally performed by employees to serve the needs of their customers, such as:

Verifying that the person is a customer

Understanding the needs of the customer

Retrieving the customer's information from the company's database

Building a web page

Transmitting the customized web page containing customer information to the customer

ASPNET is server-side software used to create interactive, dynamic web sites that can interface with databases that are also used by other corporate systems such as accounting, order entry, and shipping systems. If you want to learn how to build high traffic web sites, then you've purchased the right book because ASPNET has been adopted by some of the most popular, high demand sites on the Internet.