This is part II of a series of articles in which we'll learn how to send mass e-mails ( both text and HTML ) to a list of subscribers using ASP.NET. We'll also learn what are validation controls and how they can help us validate user input.

This comprehensive tutorial will walk you step-by-step to create a single ASP.NET page by which you'll be able to retrieve the server name of any given web site. Explains all the code in detail. Very useful.

Sample chapter from "ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution" on deploying the web site. Describes in detail how you should deploy your site once you've finished it, discusses deployment of database and application components separately.

Have you ever wanted to see who is viewing your web site in real time? how many of them are there? what browser they are using? where have they come from? what are their host addresses and host names? and exactly what pages they have read? all in detail? In this article we build an ASP.NET application to do exactly that.

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.

A Sample Chapter 5 from "Professional VB.NET 2nd Edition". Visual Basic has had powerful object-oriented capabilities since the introduction of version 4.0. VB.NET carries that tradition forward. VB.NET simplifies some of the syntax and greatly enhances these capabilities, and now supports the four major defining concepts required for a language to be fully object-oriented. This chapter will explore the creation and use of classes and objects in VB.NET.

Complete Online Chapter "Exposing Web Services" from Wrox Press book "Professional ASP.NET 1.0 2002 Edition". Topics covered include "Web Services", "SOAP Headers", "Synchronous vs Asynchronous" and "Data Caching".

A step-by-step tutorial which explains 2 ways of displaying data from an SQL Server database using ADO.NET in an ASP.NET page. Every step has been explained in detail. Online demo and source code available for download.

This article describes how to send emails with attachments using System.Web.Mail namespace from an ASP.NET page. Full source code available for download.

The .NET framework provides the Dataset object which is designed to handle data abstractly independent of the data source. The DataSet can handle data from variety of sources like SQL, XML etc. In this article we'll show you how to bind a data grid control to data in an XML file using the DataSet class.