Tutorials & Tips

Explains how Dreamweaver MX can be used to consume web services in ASP.NET for the visual environment. In detail, the "Local Time" web service from XMethods will be utilized.

This is part II of a series of articles in which we'll learn how to send mass e-mails ( both text and HTML ) to a list of subscribers using ASP.NET. We'll also learn what are validation controls and how they can help us validate user input.

Sample chapter from "Visual Basic .NET Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, XML and ADO.NET" on ASP.NET controls, code-behind, Page object, web controls, HTML controls and Page object reference.

This comprehensive tutorial will walk you step-by-step to create a single ASP.NET page by which you'll be able to retrieve the server name of any given web site. Explains all the code in detail. Very useful.

Sample chapter from "ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution" on deploying the web site. Describes in detail how you should deploy your site once you've finished it, discusses deployment of database and application components separately.

Is the migration to ADO.NET keeping you up at night? This article will show you some techniques for transforming your ADO recordset into an ADO.NET dataset using Visual Basic .NET.

A Sample Chapter 5 from "Professional VB.NET 2nd Edition". Visual Basic has had powerful object-oriented capabilities since the introduction of version 4.0. VB.NET carries that tradition forward. VB.NET simplifies some of the syntax and greatly enhances these capabilities, and now supports the four major defining concepts required for a language to be fully object-oriented. This chapter will explore the creation and use of classes and objects in VB.NET.

This article briefly describes Microsoft.NET, ASP.NET, C#, VS.NET, VB.NET, ADO.NET, XML Web Services, VISUAL J#.

This article examines how to can create a Web service in .NET and then utilize it from a classic ASP page on your Web server, thereby providing an API that can be utilized by both your ASP.NET Web pages and classic ASP pages.

Have you ever needed to have an image of some text generated dynamically on the fly? There are tons of possible applications for this type of thing, but prior to ASP.NET it was a relatively difficult thing to do. This article explains how to generate text images on the fly using ASP.NET. Source code available for download.

Complete Online Chapter "Exposing Web Services" from Wrox Press book "Professional ASP.NET 1.0 2002 Edition". Topics covered include "Web Services", "SOAP Headers", "Synchronous vs Asynchronous" and "Data Caching".

A step-by-step tutorial which explains 2 ways of displaying data from an SQL Server database using ADO.NET in an ASP.NET page. Every step has been explained in detail. Online demo and source code available for download.

The author writes "One of the things that keeps coming up as a benefit of switching to ASP.NET is the ability to use code-behind to separate display code from application logic. In Visual Studio.NET, this is 'automagically' done for you. So what if you don't have VS.NET? Here's how you can implement code-behind using just a plain old text editor and the tools included in the .NET Framework... no VS.NET required!" Source codes available for download.

The term "web service" has been used quite frequently lately: you hear people saying how good web services are and how they will dominate the future of software development, but what exactly are web services and how can we create them? This article shows us how to build two web services and also unravels all of the lingo surrounding web services.

This article describes how to send emails with attachments using System.Web.Mail namespace from an ASP.NET page. Full source code available for download.

Since "classic" ASP's humble beginnings, ADO data access classes and methods have been re-written to form ADO.NET. This article looks at the differences (in terms of classes, methods, and calling conventions) that exist between ADO and ADO.NET. It provides several practical examples that show us how to evolve from using ADO with ASP to using ADO.NET with C# and ASP.NET.

The .NET framework provides the Dataset object which is designed to handle data abstractly independent of the data source. The DataSet can handle data from variety of sources like SQL, XML etc. In this article we'll show you how to bind a data grid control to data in an XML file using the DataSet class.