Programming Data-Driven Web Applications with ASP.NET

No matter what kind of site you have got, you will need your ASP pages to access databases. ASP makes it easier to work with databases by providing support for ADO ( Activex Data Objects ). You already know how to build DSN ( Data Source Name ) and then access database, if you don't then you might want to check out my tutorial on Accessing Databases via ASP.

ASP Form Validation

Validation is basically the act of comparing something to a given set of rules and determining if it satisfies the criteria those rules represent. In this case, the something that we are tring to validate is the input that a visitor to our site has entered into a web form.

User Controls

Like most everything in ASP.NET there's really no magic involved with server controls. In fact, you can build your own controls and use them on your pages just like you use the ones that ship with .NET. Controls that you build are called user controls and they are the topic of this lesson.

Form Viewstate

Tutorial showing how to create ASP forms

Creating and Using Objects

The purpose of this lesson is to give the beginning ASP.NET developer a basic introduction to objects and some sample code that illustrates creating, instantiating, and using an object from an ASP.NET web page.

HTML Server Controls

This article discusses the use of server controls in ASP: HTML controls.

Web Server Controls

Web server controls are just like HTML controls... only different. Learn about web server controls and how to use them.

Simple ASP Authentication System

This article describes how you can secure ASP applications using simple, but quite effective authentication schemes. This article uses a very simple way to achieve this. Just follow the steps and you have a secure login system.

Displaying an RSS Feed using ASP

This tutorial will walk you through adding dynamic content from an RSS 2.0 data feed. RSS is a XML format for syndicating news content, web site updates, and blogs. Learn how to add this content to your web site with ASP.

Updating records in the database with ASP

Like we saw in the Adding Records to the Database tutorial, we have two ways to update records; one with Connection Object using SQL update command and the other with the Recordset Object