I am currently going through Professional ASP.net 2nd Ed.  I am stuck ona 
couple of problems perhaps others have encountered:

1)  I can't seem to get my ASPX page to receognize even the components 
from the supplied VB.Net source code.  I have compiled the component.dll 
as mentioned in chapter 12.  I have typed it in from the book and have 
also used the supplied source in the .zip file.  I then placed this .dll 
in the /bin dir as described in the text (this would be the 
7025_VB/.../bin in the root of my web project.  It still will not 
recognze when I try to define custom object as 'Simple'.  Any 
suggestions?  I have gone over the directions several times to no avail.

2)  Chapter 12 'Using or own Base Class for global.asax'.  This one is a 
real problem too.  I can't get my VS.Net compiler to recognize System.Web 
as a legit namespace.  Does this have anything to do with my Framework 
configuration?  I can't find it in the object browser either (nor 
intellisense).

any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated,

Courtney