Below you will find a group of links to some of the best VB, VB.NET, ASP, and ASP.NET books in their respective categories. All of the books listed have been carefully chosen on the basis of their quality, popularity, and rating by the Visual Basic community.   VB Books | VB.NET Books | ASP Books | ASP.NET Books | C# Books Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with VB 2005 Publisher: Murach Review Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with VB 2005 will quickly teach you how to build real world ASP.NET 2.0 web applications. By the end of the 4th chapter you'll possess the skills needed to develop multi-page database applications. The book is divided into five sections. Section 1 shows how to design one and multi-page database driven web applications. You will also learn how to test and debug web applications. Section 2 will teach you all of the necessary skills that you will use in all ASP.NET applications. You'll learn HTML, how to use server and validation controls, state management, and three new powerful features of ASP.NET 2.0, master pages, site navigation, and themes. Section 3 is all about database programming. You'll learn how to use all the data access features of ASP.NET 2.0, which include, ADO.NET, SQL data sources, the DataList control, and finally the new data sources which allow you to greatly reduce the amount of data access code needed for an application. The fourth section focuses on e-commerce web applications. You'll learn how to secure data transmissions, authenticate users, personalize applications using profiles, use e-mail within your application, and more. The fifth and final chapter shows how to develop user controls, custom server controls, and web services. These are efficient methods of programming that allow you to reuse your code throughout your current and other future applications. For those who prefer working with C#, Murach has also published C# edition of this book. You may find more information at Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 with C# 2005. I highly recommend this book for beginners to ASP.NET and for more experienced ASP.NET programmers who will find it to be a most valuable reference for their day to day programming needs. Read Reviews | Buy from Amazon Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Upgrader's Guide - VB Edition Publisher: Murach Review If you're an ASP.NET developer who wants to upgrade from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0, look no further, this is the book for you. This book will show you what's new and how to use it with the help of complete business applications. The first section provides a quick introduction to the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 and shows you how to develop a complete application using the new features. The section concludes with the new master pages feature of ASP.NET 2.0. Section 2 will teach you how to work with the new data access features of ASP.NET 2.0. These new features greatly reduce the amount of code needed for an application. The new features include, object data sources and some new bound controls. Section 3 shows how to use more new and exciting features of version 2.0. These include the new login controls, user profile feature for saving user preferences, themes that help separate graphics from the rest of the application, and web parts for creating portals. Section 4 shows you how to migrate your ASP.NET 1.x application to ASP.NET 2.0 and warns about some common compatibility problems that you may encounter. Finally, the book concludes with a detailed explanation on how to configure and deploy ASP.NET 2.0 applications. As with all Murach books, this one uses the popular and very effective "paired pages" format, with explanation/text of the left and code/examples on the right. This winning format is one of the key factors that separates Murach from other publishers. This format allows you to learn faster, more effectively, and also works as a great reference. Read Reviews | Buy from Amazon