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.

Is the migration to ADO.NET keeping you up at night? This article will show you some techniques for transforming your ADO recordset into an ADO.NET dataset using Visual Basic .NET.

This article examines how to can create a Web service in .NET and then utilize it from a classic ASP page on your Web server, thereby providing an API that can be utilized by both your ASP.NET Web pages and classic ASP pages.

Ideally, every application built would be designed with correct date handling techniques. In practice, applications are often built using ad hoc date formatting to match a corporate culture, the default format on a company’s server, or the favorite format of the lead developer. Also, many applications are not locale aware or were not designed to be deployed in an environment where locale issues were not considered important. Because of this it is extremely important to know the date formats in use for input and output when building applications that will integrate with other systems or databases and to handle these formats explicitly.

Given that all the prerequisites and ASP.NET are installed, this tutorial walks you through writing ASP.NET pages of your very own.

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.

ASP.NET 2.0 Free Training : Changing Master Pages Dynamically - In this tutorial you will learn how to make a copy of the master page, To add buttons for selecting an alternate master page, To write code to dynamically select the master page and test the dynamic master pages.

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.

If you are working in a mixed development environment you know that ASP "Classic" and ASP.NET cannot share session state information. I am offering the source code I used to this resolve this issue as well as discussing a couple of other possible resolutions.

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.