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Sending email in ASP.NET 2.0 it's still very easy, but a bit more complicated than in ASP.NET 1.1. To start sending emails you need to use System.Net.Mail namespace. This is new namespace in .NET 2.0 Framework. System.Net.Mail can only send emails.... a lot of examples VB.NET/C#

Explains how to use threads to enable multitasking in ASP.NET applications. Performance and responsiveness are most the important key issues in the success of your web application. Sometimes you need to perform a long time task, that uses intensive CPU operations. A common solution to this problem is the use of multithreading.

Explains how to debug ASP.NET application by using breakpoint's advantages. Application code is subject to many types of errors. Examples are syntax errors, and bugs. Most syntax errors can be easily fixed during the compilation phase. On the other hand, most bugs require debugging!

Explains how to create, manage and synchronize threads manually in ASP.NET. Some times thread pool technique is not sufficient to manage certain cases within your application, and the need for manually creating and fully managing a new thread arises. Creating threads manually is much more complex than using the thread pool, and requires you to have knowledge about threading life cycle and concepts.

Caching is the most effective technique you can use to improve the performance of your ASP.NET web application. Designing your application with caching in mind, improves both the performance and the scalability of that application.

Explains different techniques of ASP.NET WebApplication speed optimizations regarding to use of: - page and server controls, - web application settings - best coding practices.

Developing a web application that responds to users requests quickly is a target and a challenge for all web developers. ASP.NET was designed with speed optimization and performance improvements in mind. This tutorial covers correct using of state management and data access to develop a high performance ASP.NET application.

Explans in details how to use XML automatic documentation tags in ASP.NET 2.0 source code. We will illustrate in more details how you can benefit from this technique to the most extent by using some other recommended XML tags to give more comprehensiveness and functionality to your final documentation file.

In this tutorial, we will try to validate some data coming from a form input. While using this sample code will check the date is true and in correct format. We will compare the date within a culture date format. Code can do two jobs for us : date is valid and date is in correct format.

Explains the authentication process and how to set up authentication and authorization, create and manage roles and apply access rules to the ASP.NET.

A complete ASP.NET 2.0 Notepad Web application example (with source code). Explains Forms, sign in process, some complex SQL queries and new HiddenField ASP.NET 2.0 server control.

Explains how to manage a session and application state objects in ASP.NET Web Services. Using session objects is always a good option for maintaining per user data. But the case of web services is different. In real life, Web services may be called thousands of times a day. In such cases, keeping per user data in the webserver would be a bad approach.

Feedback, contact and registration forms as well as content management systems that support insert, update and delete functions are all common scenarios where form validation should be implemented.

Learn how to secure a Web site using the new Membership and Roles features of ASP.NET 2.0. Topics include user registration, password recovery, and restricting access to content with roles. Get a tour of how the Web Site Administration Tool simplifies user account administration and makes it easy to control content access permissions.

Learn how to create a website in Visual Web Developer that uses a Master Page as the site-wide template.

Explains how Web services work and how to call it from ASP.NET. When we create and run this web service , it will be run by a web browser. However, in real life, the true aim of web service can only be achieved if we can call it from some web application or a console application.

Explains how to work with multiple tables, handle errors and how DataSet tracks modified table rows. Whenever a row is changed, its status is set from UnChanged to Modified. Whenever, a new row is added, its status would be depicted by DataRow.Added.

This tutorial is just a starting point to show you how you can combine CSS layouts and Master Pages to create a fairly straightforward 2 column CSS layout for your website.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an XML standard for declaring content entries for small content feeds. The RSS format has gained popularity over the years due to its simplicity. The XML file formatted according to the RSS specification is either found as a physical file or is obtained via a Web site that handles the request and sends the content over the Internet to the client.

In this source code we will look at anyother new focus on ASP.NET. We could write binay files using BinaryWriter class. Let's see it on a sample code. .