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Sure, you've heard about .NET... maybe you're a Visual Basic programmer for a small company, maybe you write SQL stored procedures for a huge company, or maybe you're just a Microsoft developer wanting to keep on the cutting edge of technology. This article will explain exactly what .NET is, how it works, how we (as developers) can benefit from it, its many new features, and other .NET related information.

ASP.NET is not just the next version of ASP: it's the next era of web development. ASP.NET allows us to use a fully featured programming language (such as C# or VB.NET) to build web applications easily. This article talks about the fundamentals of ASP.NET and some of its powerful features such as web services, the MSDN library and several learning resources.

A complete online chapter "Asynchronous Programming" from "Professional ASP.NET Web Services". Provides in depth information on how and when to implement syncronous and asynchronous processing using web services.

This article begins with an examination of a typical data-driven ASP application and then explains how to do a minimalistic port from ASP to ASP.NET and steps and tips on converting your application fully to ASP.NET. Topics covered: Running ASP and Microsoft ASP.NET on the same Web server, Examining a common ASP application, and Porting the ASP application to ASP.NET.

A Sample Chapter from "Beginning ASP.NET using VB.NET". Topics covered include: Static Web Pages Dynamic Web Pages; An overview of the different technologies for creating dynamic web pages, including ASP.NET; Installing Internet Information Services (IIS); Installing the .NET Framework; and Testing and Troubleshooting your installation.

This article describes all the steps required to run your first ASP.NET page from downloading and installing ASP.NET Premium edition to developing and running your first ASP.NET page.

In part I of this tutorial, learn how to send simple e-mails (both text and HTML) using ASP.NET.

This 5-part article introduces you to the basics of coding C# in ASP .Net. Some of topics covered: the classic "Hello World" example in .Net form, Adding class and using Namespaces, Code a Web form in .Net and see how you can create flexible server-client interaction, How controls can be used to manipulate data from your Web forms, and Server-side data access in .Net.

A Sample Chapter from Professional ASP.NET. Covers Installing .NET, Creating ASP.NET Applications in Visual Studio.NET, The difference between ASP.NET Different and ASP, Web forms, Server Control, Code and Content Separation, and more.

This is the complete online chapter 'Exposing Web Services' from 'Professional ASP.NET' by Wrox Press. The chapter provides in depth information about creating and consuming Web Services using ASP.NET.

This tutorial describes how to use Classic ASP page layout include files in your ASP.NET pages. Full source code provided.

Microsoft is set to release an exciting upgrade to ASP later in 2000. This is a major upgrade unlike the minor changes from ASP 2.0 to 3.0. Unlike past upgrades, however, this one will not be painless. When they designed ASP+, Microsoft had to make the hard decision occasionally to break backward compatibility in the interest of improved functionality and features. Before embarking on the inevitable�and not painless�migration to ASP+, it's best to know what compatibility issues you'll have to deal with. This article covers Compatibility Issues, API changes, Semantic Changes, VB Language Changes, and more.

This is a sample chapter from 'A preview of Active Server Pages+' by Wrox Press. Main topics include: Introduction to ASP+ and the Evolution of ASP, The Next Generation Web Services Framework, How is ASP+ Different from ASP?, Getting Started with ASP+, and more.

Well by now many of you have probably heard, or at least caught wind of, the fact that the next version of ASP is not going to be ASP 4.0. It is instead going to be called ASP+, and what a difference that plus sign makes. This article describes the new ASP in a great detail. Topics include: The New ASP+ Infrastructure, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability, Quicker and Easier Development, Easier Manageability, Improved Security, Language Support, and Web Services.