If you want to build a Web page for your small business, ASP.NET is a popular and free framework that many top companies use for their own Web applications. From Bing to 3M to US Airways, companies ...

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

Using Page Methods when adding the ScriptService attribute is overkill for a single page -- find out how to add the functionality directly using AJAX. Web services provide a great way to exchange data ...

A lot of ASP applications produce their output based on the contents of one or more XML files. XSLT documents transform the browser-neutral contents of those XML files into browser-specific HTML. The ...

Microsoft introduced the ASP.NET Web Matrix integrated development environment to provide an inexpensive method for creating ASP.NET Web applications and services. This is a valuable tool for creating ...

Most websites today rely on some sort of backend database. Whether it's an e-commerce site that serves millions of requests per day or a blog that is read by only a few people, they all use the same ...

The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...

Microsoft’s November release of .NET 8 brought all kinds of great new features. One of the nice improvements introduced in ASP.NET Core 8 is IExceptionHandler, an interface that makes it easier to ...

App.config and Web.config files are a great way to add flexibility to your .NET application without having to modify code in the future. They also allow clients or end users to make configuration ...

AspPDF enables your applications to create, read, and modify PDF documents from any application supporting COM, including ASP and ASP.NET. You can save resultant PDFs to disk, memory, or an HTTP ...