Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition is a free editor designed to make your life easier when building ASP.NET web pages with ASP.NET 2.0. It's easy-to-use and easy-to-learn and has a host of features that'll improve your development speed and help you begin building exciting, dynamic web applications with ASP.NET 2.0.

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.

E-Commerce applications require mechanisms for payment. Although more commonly than not e-Commerce sites will use full credit card processing gateways, giving PayPal as an additional option of payment provides additional payment options for your customers, especially those that don't want to pay by credit card over the Internet. If you run a Web shop that uses direct credit card processing and want to integrate PayPal seamlessly, you'll find that using PayPal as a processing service is not as straight forward as using a payment gateway. In this article I describe how you can minimize the external PayPal interaction and work the PayPal payment into the order processing workflow to provide a seamless interface using ASP.NET and C#. However, the principles used here should be applicable to any Web programming environment.

ASP.NET solves many of the problems that currently face Web developers, and it greatly simplifies the tasks of creating, debugging, and deploying Web applications. It's radically different from its predecessors in many ways, but it shares a common heritage and background to some. It requires that you learn new skills and forget about some you already have. It'll take time to master, but that investment will be repaid many times over once you start working with it in earnest. In short, it's what many Web developers have been asking for over the past few years.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an XML standard for declaring content entries for small content feeds. The RSS format has gained popularity over the years due to its simplicity. The XML file formatted according to the RSS specification is either found as a physical file or is obtained via a Web site that handles the request and sends the content over the Internet to the client.

ASP.NET 2.0 Tutorials : Introducing Visual Studio.NET Web Applications - In this tutorial - Introducing Visual Studio.NET Web Applications, You will learn How Web Applications Work, Choose a Language for creation.

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.

ASP.NET is a managed framework that facilitates building server-side applications based on HTTP, HTML, XML and SOAP. To .NET developers, ASP.NET is a platform that provides one-stop shopping for all application development that requires the processing of HTTP requests.

Introduction: In this tutorial we will introduce the new technology for building websites. This new technology is known as Asp.net. Asp.net allows the developer to build applications faster. This is achieved due to the fast that Asp.net makes use of the rich class libraries provided by Microsoft. net framework.

William Fawthrop (aka Informant) gives us his first .NET article in what promises to be a great new series of articles from him. The author specializes in .NET migration as well as creative solutions in the .NET framework. In this article: A C# 'Hello World' with a loop.