First of all setup IIS on your system to run ASP.Net pages. To check whether IIS is configured on your system. Run IE and enter http://localhost, if it runs successfully then you are ready to develop ASP.Net pages. Otherwise, install IIS from add/remove windows programs from control panel. After installing IIS repeat the same step of running localhost using internet explorer.

Before using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition for developing ASP.Net pages we will start with simple single asp.net pages.
To start with a simple asp.net page you must be familiar with configuring virtual directories. First of all create a folder examples in wwwroot folder under inetpub. Then run inetmgr to configure its vitrtual directory. It will run Internet Information Services manager ie IIS manager showing Default Web Site in list items. Right click on Default Web Site and select add new virtual directory, enter examples as an Alias for your new virtual directory then browse for its physical path pointing to the examples folder created in wwwroot.

Now you are ready to develop simple ASP.Net page.

Next we will develop simple ASP.Net pages to learn step by step examples of creating interactive ASP web pages.