Get a jump on the growing need to create and edit Office documents (mostly Word and Excel documents) programmatically from .NET applications. Dino Esposito demonstrates two approaches.

ADO.NET 2.0 introduces enhancements to the .NET provider model and SQL Server managed provider, which go a long way towards getting better support for specific database features within the boundaries of a common object model.

ASP.NET 2.0 abstracts the Web developer from the creation of server requests and the logic needed to parse the server's responses. Script callbacks offer a ready-to-use mechanism that greatly simplifies the procedure.

ASP.NET 2.0 has generalized and transformed the ASP.NET 1.x session state module into the ASP.NET provider model, making it far more resilient and customizable than its predecessor.

With the first alpha of ASP.NET 2.0 just around the corner, the debate about the effective goodness of code-behind seems to be close to its end.

It's known that the .NET Framework version 1.1 is a minor upgrade with a relatively limited set of changes and updates. Get a gist of the changes with this list of five programming related differences between ASP.NET 1.0 and ASP.NET 1.1.

Is your XML valid? The .NET Framework's XmlValidatingReader class provides you the means to verify the validity of your XML documents and fragments. Wintellect's Dino Esposito explains the details.

Learn to use expert, time-saving ASP.NET techniques as you do data reporting using ASP.NET and ADO.NET. Excerpted from Dino's book, Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET.