Introduction To Active Server Pages+

This manuscript is an abridged version of a chapter from the Wrox Press book Introduction To Active Server Pages+. Chapter 1 of Introduction To Active Server Pages + covers the evolution of ASP and the next generation web services framework. The Chapter also looks at how ASP+ is different from ASP and how to get started with ASP+ Introduction To Active Server Pages + covers a product that is still under development, and as such it is aimed at experienced ASP developers who are working at the

An Anatomy of an ASP .NET Project

Ever since Kernighan and Ritchie wrote a program to display "Hello World" in the C language, programming has never been the same. I have learnt and programmed a variety of new languages since then, and my first attempt at each new programming language has been to greet the world with a "Hello World". ASP .NET is not just a new revision of ASP. It is not ASP 4.0. It is a completely new paradigm and a new programming model and language. What better way to be introduced to this language than with a

Transitioning To ASP.NET - Server Controls

The long awaited Active Server Pages .NET (ASP.NET) is the replacement for the current version of ASP. This key component of the new .NET framework has the potential to save organizations time and money by allowing them to establish object-oriented frameworks for the web applications. Microsoft has done an excellent job with automating common web development tasks, but more importantly they have created a tool that gives developers the ability to handle any business problem. In this first articl

Preparing your ASP Pages for a Transition to ASP.NET

One of the biggest changes developers migrating from classic ASP to ASP.NET will have to deal with is ASP.NET's radical shift in the way dynamic Web pages are built. ASP pages consist of interpretted script code often presented in procedural terms. The script begins processing the first line of code in the ASP page and works its way down. The code in an ASP page is used, essentially, to directly fiddle and customize the HTML that is sent to the client (the Web visitor's browser). With ASP.NET

Getting Started With ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a new and powerful technology for writing dynamic web pages. It's a convergence of two major Microsoft technologie's, Active Server Pages (ASP) and .NET. ASP is a relative old-timer on the web computing circuit and has provided a sturdy, fast, and effective way of creative dynamic web pages for more than five years now. .NET is the new kid on the block and is a whole suite of technologies designed by Microsoft with the aim of revolutionizing the way in which all programming developmen

Your first ASP.NET Page

ASP.NET Pages are text files with a .aspx filename extension. When a browser client requests .aspx resources, the ASP.NET runtime (at the server) parses and compiles the target file into a .NET Framework class. This class can then be used to dynamically process incoming request (note that the .aspx file is only compiled the first time it is accessed -- the compiled type instance is reused across multiple requests). An ASP.NET Page can be created simply by taking an existing HTML file and rena

Introducing ASP.NET Web Matrix

When .NET was first introduced, there were precious few options for developing applications. During the beta, developers were forced to use simple text editors like Notepad in conjunction with the command line compiler. Later, Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET) was introduced and many of us who suffered through Visual Interdev thought our prayers for a complete Integrated Development Environment (IDE) were finally answered. VS.NET is a major step toward IDE nirvana but suffers from serious drawbacks, n

Introducing Microsoft DotNet

At the Professional Developers' Conference in Orlando last July (2000), Microsoft unveiled its latest architecture, .NET. Its various features and components were explained to the large audience by a number of speakers. So what is .NET?The term is, essentially, a new marketing label which Microsoft is sticking on existing and future products. The .NET label now features on server products such as BizTalk Server 2000 and Application Center 2000, which are based on Windows DNA 2000 technology.

Taking Advantage of .NET Framework Classes

The .NET Framework, an environment for developing, deploying, and running .NET applications, consists of three basic parts: ASP.NET, the Common Language Runtime (CLR), and the .NET Framework classes. Much has been written about ASP.NET and the CLR, but comparatively little has been written about the .NET Framework classes. This first of a two-part series on the subject lays the groundwork for working with the System classes and introduces a couple of useful classes: the System.Math and System.Ra

Introduction to ASP.NET

ASP.NET offers a novel programming model and infrastructure that facilitates a powerful new class of applications. ASP.NET is a compiled. NET-based environment, so one can author applications in any .NET compatible language, including Visual Basic, C# and Jscript.NET. Developers can effortlessly access the advantage of these technologies, which consist of a managed Common Language Runtime environment, type safety, inheritance, and so on. With the aid of Microsoft Visual Studio.NET Web developmen

Your first ASP.NET page

ASP.NET is an exceptionally remarkable technology for building web applications. We begin exploring ASP.NET pages with this first article. In this article we'll learn : * From where to download ASP.NET premium edition? * The installation process. * Developing your first ASP.NET page. * Running and testing your ASP.NET page. Where to get ASP.NET premium edition? To run ASP.NET pages you need to download and install Microsoft ASP.NET Premium Edition. ASP.NET premium editi

.NET Migration Case Study: Using ASP .NET to Build the beta.visualstudio.net Web

When the Web site used to collect customer feedback about the Visual Studio .NET beta needed an update, the Visual Studio team saw a good opportunity to implement, deploy, and showcase a real-world site using .NET technologies. This article covers the migration of the Web site, beta.visualstudio.net, from components written in Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP hosted on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 to ASP .NET and the .NET Framework. The choices of technologies to be incorporated, al

All About .NET

By now you have most likely heard of Microsoft’s .NET Initiative. But what is .NET, really? Next time you are at a cocktail party and someone asks you that question, just say, "Its 1 part marketing, 1 part paradigm-shift, and 3 parts cool new products!" If they press you for details, tell them to go read the rest of this article. Marketing and Paradigm Shifts Microsoft will be releasing .NET versions of existing products as part of its .NET Initiative. Of course a next version of these

Prerequisites For .NET Programming

The .NET framework and all of its languages are quite large, and can take quite a while to learn in their entirety. If you've never programmed in an object-orientated language before, then you should know a couple of things before jumping into .NET programming. In this article, James will provide you with primers for the object-orientated paradigm, as well as the concept of a namespace.

ASP .NET Tutorial

In Classic ASP, we were having only six objects and we have only less to learn. But now, in ASP .NET (V1 Framework) we have around 4,000 classes and 78,000 methods and properties. This is a beginers tutorial for ASP .NET. All examples have been worked out in VB. To start with, I am starting with three web server controls. I will add many other controls with ready to use examples in the coming days. I will list the control that we are going to learn. Also, I have a bulletted list of informatio

Comments in ASP.NET

This article summarizes the different types of comments in ASP.NET. The programming languages covered are VB.NET and C#.

A Fast Track Guide to ASP.NET

Microsoft's .NET technology has attracted a great deal of press since Beta 1 was first released to the world. Since then, mailing lists, newsgroups, and web sites have sprung up containing a mixture of code samples, applications, and articles of various forms. Even if you're not a programmer using existing ASP technology, it's a good bet that you've at least heard of .NET, even if you aren't quite sure what it involves. After all, there's so much information about .NET, that it's sometimes hard

The .NET Framework

Welcome to the .NET Developer Toolkit! My name is Rob Howard, and I'm a program manager on the .NET Frameworks team at Microsoft. Specifically, I work on the ASP.NET feature of the .NET Framework, but I won't limit this column to discussions of ASP.NET. Instead, I'll cover a wide variety of technical discussions all related to the .NET Framework. If you have suggestions for column topics, or feedback, please email me at rhoward@microsoft.com with ".NET Developer Toolkit:[subject]" in the subject

The Road to ASP.NET

If you’re like me, you may be a little overwhelmed with your first introduction to ASP.NET. Microsoft has really gone all out this time and they have given us a completely new framework to work with. A change of this magnitude is rarely seen in the software world and it’s no wonder some of us are hesitant to try it. One thing I can assure you of is that it is well worth your time to learn. In this article I will discuss some of the advantages of ASP.NET, what has changed, how to get started,

Back to Basics

Visual Studio.NET's support for quickly and easily building ASP.NET "Web Forms" applications is great in many respects. ASP developers can now gain a huge productivity boost from using VS.NET and ASP.NET, and it makes the transition from traditional Windows application programming in VB, or any other language for that matter, to web application development significantly easier. If fact, VS.NET makes building Web Applications so similar to the process of building Windows applications that traditi