Conrad Jalali shows how to extend the functionality of the ASP.NET Calendar control to remove some of the annoying postback delays that occur when populating a text box with a date from a popup calendar.

The proliferation of Web Services on the market and their universal acceptance on the Internet makes them more vulnerable to security threats. Therefore, we need to tighten security for our Web Services and pay attention to it. With ASP.NET, Microsoft has provided the necessary features for securing our Web Services and other Web resources. In this article, Mansoor Ahmed Siddiqui explains how to unleash the power of ASP.NET security.

Mansoor Ahmed Siddiqui explains debugging and tracing and shows how to create custom trace listeners to help ensure hassle-free development.

Back in the days of classic ASP, if you were building a database-driven web site, your choice was either to invest a lot of money to get a copy of Microsoft SQL Server (or some other enterprise-ready database) or invest a lot of time finding a way to deal with the performance and scalability limitations of Microsoft Access. Luckily these days there's another viable alternative: MySQL.

One of many improvements ASP.NET brings to the development table is in error handling. Adam Tuliper whips up a simple ASP.NET solution for handling those pesky and unexpected post-production errors.

Generics is new feature in .NET v2.0. This article explains Generics, shows how to create them, and includes some simple examples of where they could be useful.