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.

Learn how to create the basic structure of a simple web application using Microsoft's Web Matrix or Visual Studio.

This step-by-step tutorial makes use of over 20 images to describe every step in detail from obtaining, installing, configuring and running MySQL on Windows to insalling/uninstalling MySQL as a Windows service, creating a new table, populating it with some records and displaying those records in an ASP.NET page. Also explains the advantages of using MySQL on Windows with ASP.NET. All the code is available for download.

ASP.NET 2.0 Free Training : Adding Sorting and Paging in GridView - In this tutorial you will learn adding sorting and paging in a GridView Control, Implement Two Column Sorting, Create Code for Custom Sorting, Editing the GridView control data, Deleting Displayed Records, Inserting Records and Using Templates.

In this code snippet we're going to provide will enable you to add text to an image in memory. One use for this code may be to open a file on the file system and add some text to the image, then stream the image out to the user. This could come in handy if you want to create navigational buttons for your Web site dynamically based on a request or dynamically create banners via .Net code.

ASP.NET 2.0 Tutorials : Adding Web Parts at Run Time - In this tutorial you will learn how to add Web Parts at run time and To test the Web Parts catalog.

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.

ASP.NET 2.0 Free Tutorials : Advanced Site Functionality - In this tutorial you will learn advanced site functionality, Enhanced Page Framework, To create the Web.Sitemap file, Tracking Traffic with Site Counters and Going Mobile.

Learn the difference between Classic ASP techniques and the new Templating method in ASP.NET.

This programming tutorial covers the basics of Microsoft .NET environment and its architecture. It includes NET Implementations Common Language Runtime Framework Class Libraries Common Language Specification (CLS) .NET Framework Namespaces