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.

Have you ever needed to have an image of some text generated dynamically on the fly? There are tons of possible applications for this type of thing, but prior to ASP.NET it was a relatively difficult thing to do. This article explains how to generate text images on the fly using ASP.NET. Source code available for download.

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.

The author writes "One of the things that keeps coming up as a benefit of switching to ASP.NET is the ability to use code-behind to separate display code from application logic. In Visual Studio.NET, this is 'automagically' done for you. So what if you don't have VS.NET? Here's how you can implement code-behind using just a plain old text editor and the tools included in the .NET Framework... no VS.NET required!" Source codes available for download.

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.

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.

Since "classic" ASP's humble beginnings, ADO data access classes and methods have been re-written to form ADO.NET. This article looks at the differences (in terms of classes, methods, and calling conventions) that exist between ADO and ADO.NET. It provides several practical examples that show us how to evolve from using ADO with ASP to using ADO.NET with C# and ASP.NET.

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.

File uploading has always been a tedious task for the web developer community. Either we have to use a third party component or write several lines of code. With the advent of ASP.Net file uploading has become a lot easier, importantly without the need for third party components. All we have to do is to use the ASP.Net HTML File control and write a few lines of C# code.