Microsoft is set to release an exciting upgrade to ASP later in 2000. This is a major upgrade unlike the minor changes from ASP 2.0 to 3.0. Unlike past upgrades, however, this one will not be painless. When they designed ASP+, Microsoft had to make the hard decision occasionally to break backward compatibility in the interest of improved functionality and features. Before embarking on the inevitable—and not painless—migration to ASP+, it's best to know what compatibility issues you'll have to deal with. This article covers Compatibility Issues, API changes, Semantic Changes, VB Language Changes, and more.

If you are working in a mixed development environment you know that ASP "Classic" and ASP.NET cannot share session state information. I am offering the source code I used to this resolve this issue as well as discussing a couple of other possible resolutions.

Get an overview of the major features and improvements introduced with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and ASP.NET 2.0. Follow along through the creation of a fictitious customer portal to learn about topics including Master Pages, Themes, database access, Membership, Roles, the Web Site Administration Tool, site navigation, and user profiles.

Client applications are applications that run on the client system-or the desktop of the user. They are closest to the traditional windows based applications and they display forms or windows on the desktop enabling the user perform predefined tasks. Word processors and spread sheets are examples of client applications that employ menus, GUI elements and access local resources such as printers and scanners.

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a copy of the master page, To add buttons for selecting an alternate master page, To write code to dynamically select the master page and test the dynamic master pages.

In this tutorial you will having a deeper look at the Code Directory, the Code Beside Model and the evolution of the Code Behind model, learn about Partial Classes, Sharing Source components, Creating a Component, you will learn how to create a Application_Code folder, to create a component in the Application_Code folder and use a component.

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.

In this tutorial you will learn how master pages can be nested within one main master page, build and example nested master page with the help of sample code.

.NET framework is a Windows Component that supports the building and running of windows applications and XML Web services. The purpose of the component is to provide the user with a consistent object oriented programming environment whether the code is stored locally or remotely. It aims to minimize software deployment and versioning conflicts and also promote safe execution of code including codes executed by trusted third parties. It is directed towards eliminating performance problems of scripted or interpreted environments. The effort is to make developer experience consistent across a variety of applications and platforms and create communication standards that help .NET framework applications integrate with all other web based applications.

ASP.NET 2.0 Free Training : Setting Application-Level Caching - In this tutorial you will learn how to set application-level caching in ASP.NET 2.0. To Configure and Use Parameter-Level Caching and also the steps involved to cache based on parameters.