This paper looks at some of the specific benefits you can achieve in migrating applications from ASP, and presents five distrinct strategies for a migration, based on its perceived strategic value and your desired timeframe for results. A scorecard with key questions about your migration allows you to quickly arrive at an initial estimate of a migration's complexity. Finally, it outlines the major activities involved in the four phases of a migration project.

ASP.NET pages are dynamically compiled on demand when first required in the context of a Web application. Dynamic compilation is not specific to ASP.NET pages (.aspx files); it also occurs with Web Services (.asmx files), Web user controls (.ascx files), HTTP handlers (.ashx files), and ASP.NET application files such as the global.asax file. But what does it mean exactly that an ASP.NET page is compiled?

Learn the difference between Classic ASP techniques and the new Templating method in ASP.NET.

William Fawthrop (aka Informant) gives us his first .NET article in what promises to be a great new series of articles from him. The author specializes in .NET migration as well as creative solutions in the .NET framework. In this article: A C# 'Hello World' with a loop.

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.

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.

A comprehensive tutorial on uploading files to Microsoft Access database using built-in ASP.NET server controls. Describes how to upload one or more file to Access database? how to insert and retrieve binary data from an Access database? how to view and delete files uploaded on the Access database?

This tutorial is just a starting point to show you how you can combine CSS layouts and Master Pages to create a fairly straightforward 2 column CSS layout for your website.

Advanced use of Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 to achieve consistent look and feel of your web site. Master Pages enables us to apply the same page layout to multiple pages in a Web Application.

Advanced use of Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 to achieve consistent look and feel of your web site. Master Pages enables us to apply the same page layout to multiple pages in a Web Application.