Using Page Methods when adding the ScriptService attribute is overkill for a single page -- find out how to add the functionality directly using AJAX. Web services provide a great way to exchange data ...

Web services are the next step in building distributed, modularized applications. They allow you to take some of your business logic, compartmentalize it in a component, and execute the functionality ...

Most websites today rely on some sort of backend database. Whether it's an e-commerce site that serves millions of requests per day or a blog that is read by only a few people, they all use the same ...

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

A lot of ASP applications produce their output based on the contents of one or more XML files. XSLT documents transform the browser-neutral contents of those XML files into browser-specific HTML. The ...

ASP.NET Core configuration providers read configuration data from common sources such as JSON files and databases. But you can use other sources by creating custom configuration providers. We use ...

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Developers can create buttons that launch new Websites from within a Web page, or they can make new website windows appear without user intervention. If your ASP.NET application needs to show a user a ...

You can take advantage of custom route constraints in ASP.NET Core to validate route values and avoid passing unwanted or unnecessary requests to action methods. Route constraints in ASP.NET Core are ...