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 ...

Web Matrix is a design tool for ASP that's simpler to use than Visual Studio. Learn how to write ASP.NET pages with it Microsoft is tipping the scales in its favor with ASP.NET Web Matrix, a free ...

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 ...

ASP.NET Core configuration providers read configuration data from common sources such as JSON files and databases. But you can use other sources by creating custom configuration providers. We use ...

You can take advantage of custom route constraints in ASP.NET Core to validate route values and avoid passing unwanted or unnecessary requests to action methods. Route constraints in ASP.NET Core are ...

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 ...

ASP.NET Core lets you bundle up business functionality along with its related UI into a view component that you can reuse in throughout your application. In this column, I'm going to take a look at ...

Developers can create buttons that launch new Websites from within a Web page, or they can make new website windows appear without user intervention. If your ASP.NET application needs to show a user a ...