We are now at the next stage of Active Server Pages development. ASP.NET takes Active Server Pages and rapid web application development to a whole new level. All of the benefits provided by Active Server Pages to web development have been expanded upon and improved. Many of the inherent hurdles and barriers that caused struggles and difficulties for web developers in earlier versions of ASP have been lowered or eliminated altogether.
Extend the existing globalization capabilities of .Net to create flexible and powerful multilgual web sites. First create a custom ResourceManager and then create custom localized-capable server controls to easily deploy multilingual functionality.
Complete online chapter "Talking To HailStorm" from "Early Adopter HailStorm (.NET My Services)". Provides in depth information on what is .NET My Services, what it provides and how to make use of it.
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.
ASP.Net's introduction of the web.config file went a long way to filling the configuration hole we had to deal with in classic ASP. We actually went from having very little (global.asa was the closest thing) to a well-structured, change on the fly XML file. For the most part, the web.config file does the trick fine. However there are some limitations and constraints with using it, which you are probably already aware of. What you might not know is how easy is it to surmount those issues by creating a far more flexible alternative.
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.
In this article we will cover exposing an existing ASP.Net application as a Web service. We will provide methods for creating the Web service, converting readers to data sets, and a client application for the new service.
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.