We all talk about webservices, webservices can do this and webservices can do that. But when we are asked to make one, we hesitate. Maybe it's because we never made a webservice before, and all the time playing with Webforms and Windows Forms or even Console Applications. By the way, I love Console applications. In this article, I will show you how to create a simple webservice that is consumed by a Console application client.

Menus are well known way to provide feature rich but also simple user interface to your users. This tutorial explains how to make static or dynamic menus in ASP.NET applications.

Most programmers are used to passing data in methods as input and output parameters. Imagine a scenario where you wish to pass methods around to other methods instead of data. Amazed! Read further.

This article describes procedures to easily and properly create and maintain your VS.Net 2003 projects under your source control system. This is especially important for ASP.Net web applications as many developers have difficulty organizing them under Visual Source Safe.

This article describes procedures to easily and properly create and maintain your VS.Net 2003 projects under your source control system. This is especially important for ASP.Net web applications as many developers have difficulty organizing them under Visual Source Safe.

VB.NET 2005 Free Training: Using Application Class and Message Class - Visual Basic 2005 introduces a speedy way to access many important classes relating to the Computer on which the application is running, the user running it, the application itself, its forms and any associated web services. The best part of it all is that you can access it all using the new My object. The new My object has added features that help the programmer to gain access to some functionality that was really hard to achieve.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Dialog Boxes in Visual Basic .NET 2005 - Most Windows applications request for user input. Dialog boxes are one means of requesting users for specific kinds of inputs. Therefore, VB.NET allows its designers to create a number of different types of dialog boxes. Standard Dialog boxes are included in classes that fall within the purview of the CommonDialog. FileDialog, ColorDialog, FontDialog, PageSetupDialog, PrintDialog.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Using XML Data In this tutorial you will learn about Using XML Data - XML Basics, Using XmlDocument Class, Treating XML as Relational Data, The Introduction, The database, Handle Data Errors - Handle Database Errors and Handling Multi-User Errors.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Web Services - SOAP, WSDL, Disco and UDDI In this tutorial you will learn about Web Services - Understanding Web Services, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), The Web Service Discovery Tool (DISCO), Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), Web Service Discovery Language (WSDL).

Out of the box, ASP.NET is a very powerful platform for writing XML Web Services. But what happens when you need to format the XML to match an existing XML grammar? Not surprisingly, this can be accomplished using the XML Serialization Engine. In the first part of this two-part article, Justin Rudd shows you the basics of the engine as well as how the engine works with ASP.NET.