Out of the box, ASP.NET is a very powerful platform for writing XML Web Services. But what happens when you need to format the XML to match an existing XML grammar? Not surprisingly, this can be accomplished using the XML Serialization Engine. In the first part of this two-part article, Justin Rudd shows you the basics of the engine as well as how the engine works with ASP.NET.

Shows and explains you how to make an ASP .NET Web Service, an ASP .NET Web Application and how to consume the Web Service with the ASP .NET Web Application.

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.

Learn about the licensing requirements for ASP.NET server controls and learn about an ASP.NET control licensing implementation that can be used with versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the .NET Framework. The implementation can be extended to create custom server-side licensing schemes.

With the advent of .NET, support for ASP.NET development has been fully integrated into Visual Studio .NET. It provides an extremely powerful and usable environment for ASP.NET development in the guise of Web Forms, as well as the more traditional types of application (Windows Forms). And now Visual Studio .NET is joined by another Microsoft product, namely the Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix Project (referred to from here on in as "Web Matrix").

Sure, you've heard about .NET... maybe you're a Visual Basic programmer for a small company, maybe you write SQL stored procedures for a huge company, or maybe you're just a Microsoft developer wanting to keep on the cutting edge of technology. This article will explain exactly what .NET is, how it works, how we (as developers) can benefit from it, its many new features, and other .NET related information.

How to create a cookie, how to get the value stored in a cookie, set the lifetime, path and domain for a cookie, edit a cookie, delete a cookie, remove subkeys from a cookie...

This serie of articles explains the membership provider system in ASP.NET 2.0, how to make it work against SQL Server 2000, how to tweak the CreateUserWizard to require email verification when new accounts are created etc. As of this moment there are 6 articles, all with explaining sourcecode.

In this tutorial you will learn about Data Source Object Model in ASP.NET 2.0, the Rationale of DataSource components, Data Source Control Internals, Tabular DataSource Controls, Hierarchical Data Source Controls, The SqlDataSource Control: Usage and Data Source Parameters.

In this tutorial you will learn about reference Master Page Mebers, add property to Master Page, expose Master Properties. Members of the Master page can be referenced by content pages. These members can be methods, properties or controls. The constraint for property reference is theat the property has to be declared as public members of the master page. They could be public page scope variables, public propertis and public methods. Let us work out a simple example. The developer wants to set the title of a content page or to add a style sheet on a per page basis. Code will have to be added to the Page_Load event. The Header property on the Page class exposes the content of the< head > tag as programmable entities.