This guide presents a practical, scenario driven approach to designing and building secure ASP.NET applications for Windows 2000 and version 1.0 of the .NET Framework. It focuses on the key elements of authentication, authorization and secure communication within and across the tiers of distributed .NET Web applications.

This article explains what are "Delegates"? And what is their role in .NET framework. The author uses VB.NET code to provide working examples of "Delegates".

Consider the perceived risks of migrations that tend to cloud the benefits of new technologies from a business perspective, making it difficult to justify technology migrations to the decision makers in an enterprise. See how these risks can be identified, planned for ahead of time and evaluated against cost, time to market, and other business factors so that the project planner can have a solid handle on the bottom line of a project. See examples from a real-world commercial application and look at each of the business and technological factors that needed to be addressed when migrating an ASP application to ASP.NET on the soon to be released Windows Server 2003.

In this code snippet we're going to provide will enable you to add text to an image in memory. One use for this code may be to open a file on the file system and add some text to the image, then stream the image out to the user. This could come in handy if you want to create navigational buttons for your Web site dynamically based on a request or dynamically create banners via .Net code.

In this article we cover using the System.Net class to make an HTTP request and return the status code. In addition, we'll cover handling the HTTP response and binding it to an XSL transformation.

Learn about the basics of building mobile Web applications with ASP.NET Mobile Controls. See how the control model and drag and drop designer make it easy to target nearly 200 devices (cell phones, PDAs and pagers) from a single mobile Web form. Find out what the adaptive rendering and rich customization and extensibility models can do for your mobile Web applications.

Learn how to use the tools and options in Visual Studio .NET to increase your productivity and work efficiently in a team environment when building ASP.NET applications.

Some ADO.NET sessions focus on the object model and .NET Framework classes and not on specific data access tasks that ADO.NET can solve. This session assumes you're somewhat familiar with the ADO.NET object model and want to see how to address the common tasks your application is likely to perform. Focus on getting connected in an ASP and Windows application, how to setup and run ad hoc queries as well as parameter-driven stored procedures, with and without returned parameters. See how to bind to DataReaders and DataSets and when it makes sense to use each. See how to fill and bind to a ListBox and a DataGrid and how to update the data, even when the query is the result of a complex join.

How do you operate an Analysis Services data warehouse? Learn how to configure, secure, backup, restore, and monitor the database. Learn techniques for developing and running a system that gracefully handles change in data, design, and usage.

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.