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.

Accessing and manipulating data using ASP.NET is very easy and flexible. This article takes a look at some of the new .NET data access classes and methods, including the OleDB and SqlClient namespaces, as well as the DataReader, DataSet and DataSetCommand classes. The author tops this article off by creating a simple ASP.NET data access page with C# that retrieves data from a local Microsoft Access database.

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 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.

The label "web services," as broadly applied, has two levels of meaning—one specific and one conceptual. Specifically, web services are a stack of emerging standards that describe a service-oriented, component-based application architecture. Conceptually, web services represent a model in which discrete tasks within e-business processes are distributed widely throughout a value net.

How to create a cookie, how to get the value stored in a cookie, set the lifetime, path and domain for a cookie, edit a cookie, delete a cookie, remove subkeys from a cookie...

In this paper, we will look at the structure of a very simple ASP.NET page and how that page is rendered in the visitor's browser. Then we will look at the Page class, which is the .NET class that all your ASP.NET pages are based on. After that, we will review basic compiler directives that you can place on your page. At the end of the chapter, we will review a simple Quiz ASP.NET page that demonstrates the basics of an ASP.NET page.

This article explains how to use the .NET XmlTextWriter class to create a custom RSS feed. I have decided to write this article in 2 parts. In this part, I will focus on creating the RSS feed and how to consume it from an asp.net page. In part 2, I will focus on creating a dynamic RSS feed with ADO.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

In this paper, we discuss the benefits that companies are seeking to gain in migrating to ASP.NET, and the various approaches they can adopt. We also discuss how to estimate the complexity of a .NET migration, and outline the main phases of a well-planned migration.