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ASP.NET UserControl is the new way of encapsulate all your code reuse in your web applications. Old way of doing this would be via SSI includes which can be very messy and very hard to maintain if your site grow. ASP.NET UserControl is infact the simplest form of ASP.NET control encapsulation. Because they are the simplest, they are also the easiest to create and use. Essentially user control is a grouping of existing server controls into a single container control. This enables you to group all your reusable part of webpage into UserControl. The basic example would be Login Controls, News Controls, Header Controls and etc.

Ever wondered how Microsoft have implemented Windows XP help? Ever wondered how MSDN authors develop their articles? Ever wondered how come when you press F1 in most application you are presented with something describing that part of the application? You will be amazed if we told you that all of the above cases are developed using the same tool: Microsoft Windows HTML Help Workshop. We believe now you need not us to explain more why Microsoft Windows HTML Help Workshop is an important and vital tool for most software developers and content writers / distributors.

The following source code displays count of all records in a database. We will use a data command to execute an SQL statement that will return with count of records. Source code written in Visual Basic.NET can easily modify to work in an application.

VB.NET 2005 Free Training: Differences between VB.NET 1.0 and VB.NET 2.0: VB.NET 2005 comes with a number of enhancements. The IntelliSense Code snippets, the Windows Forms designer updates, IntelliSense filtering, debugger data tips, exception Assistant etc make the software a pleasure to work with. The language has been spruced up with generics, unsigned types, Operator overloading etc.

The code sample demonstrates how you can use the built-in ASP.NET classes to generate a graphical representation of a single line of text. The example uses three parameters: (1) the text (2) font size (3) font color The generated graphic is a 256 color GIF image with transparency. This example includes a palette hack for forcing a transparent background on the GIF image.

Explains how to include multiple .config files to make ASP.NET Web application more secure and manageable. Microsoft ASP.Net provides a configuration system that can be used to keep our applications flexible at run-time.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.