(Tony Patton) Most Web sites collect data via Web pages—this includes everything from collecting user feedback to posting blog content. It’s good to be able to gather text; however, it’s often necessary to collect more robust elements. For instance, many career sites gather resumes that job seekers

(Bipin Joshi) In the Part 1 we learnt the basic idea of ASP.NET provider model. In this part I will explain the overall architecture of ASP.NET built-in providers. Specifically we will be dissecting the membership provider.

(Dinesh Chandnani) Version 1.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework provided a very flexible design-time architecture, but offered virtually no implemented code to actually create and host designers. All of the hosting logic was implemented in Visual Studio .NET, requiring third parties to rewrite all of

(Ian Wilson) Web applications, specifically those relying on back end databases, are typically being created using either Microsoft’s ASP.Net language, or the Open Source alternative language of PHP. Reasons why one might choose one over the other can include: The cost of development tools, or avail

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(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET 2.0 includes host of new features such as Membership, Roles and Profiles. These features are based on the Provider Model. This series of article will demystify the internals of provider model and will illustrate how to create your own custom providers.

(Anand Thakur) Web Services means structuring operations and data according to SOAP specification in an XML document. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a way for a program running in one kind of operating system or language (e.g. Windows or .Net) to communicate with a program in the same or an

(Mark Strawmyer) The configuration of the development environment used for this article is a Microsoft Virtual PC running Windows Server 2003. I promoted it to a domain controller for a fictitious dev.codeguru.com domain. All of the examples in this article run against that server instance. For thos

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