In the past, Microsoft’s ADO.NET and SQL Server were generally designed and developed separately. But the most recent versions share many complementary features and technologies revolving around XML. ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0–The Beta Version, 2nd Edition, written by Alex Homer, Dave Sussman, a

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(Justin Whitney) When it was first released in 2002 as part of the larger .NET initiative, Visual Basic .NET made an evolutionary leap from Visual Basic 6.0. At the same time, Active Server Pages underwent a similar seismic shift to ASP.NET, and its VBScript was replaced by VB.NET. So VB6 to VB.NET.

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(Min Kwan Park) Debugging ASP.NET can be difficult because the configuration and interplay of accounts can cause breaks at a number of different steps. This article outlines the more commonly seen problems associated with debugging ASP.NET applications, shows examples of the errors, and explains