A complete online chapter "Asynchronous Programming" from "Professional ASP.NET Web Services". Provides in depth information on how and when to implement syncronous and asynchronous processing using web services.

VB.NET 2005 Free Training: Setting and Adding Properties to a Windows Form - In this tutorial we wil leran about Setting and Adding Properties to a Windows Form, Using the Visual Designer to set Windows Form Properties, Setting Windows Forms Properties programatically and Using Visual Inheritance along with the sample project and screen shots.

With the advent of .NET, support for ASP.NET development has been fully integrated into Visual Studio .NET. It provides an extremely powerful and usable environment for ASP.NET development in the guise of Web Forms, as well as the more traditional types of application (Windows Forms). And now Visual Studio .NET is joined by another Microsoft product, namely the Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix Project (referred to from here on in as "Web Matrix").

In this tutorial you will learn how to create contents for a Master Page, create a home page, add contents to home page and finally test the home page. The template for the content is now ready. We shall proceed to define content for the master page by creating an ASP.NET page that is attached to the Master Page. Content pages are specialized forms of .aspx pages that only contain the content. Content can be text or controls. We shall create a content page for the Home page and another for the About page.

ASP.NET provides three primary forms of caching: page level output caching, user control level output caching (or fragment caching), and the Cache API. Output caching and fragment caching have the advantage of being incredibly simple to implement, and are sufficient in many cases. The cache API provides additional flexibility (quite a lot, in fact), and can be used to take advantage of caching throughout every application.

VB.NET 2005 Tutorials : Web Reference, ASP.NET Web Application and XML Web Service - In this tutorial you will learn about Using Web Reference - Adding a Web reference:, To create an ASP.NET Web application, Adding a Web Reference, Testing a Web Service, Accessing the XML Web Service and To access the XML Web service.

Learn how to extend an ASP.NET control to hold an unlimited number of additional values in ViewState to avoid expensive re-querying of the database.

In this tutorial you will learn how To create a page for containing Web Parts controls, To create content for the main zone and To create a user control.

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.

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.