When a request comes in to your ASP.NET site, it's routed through a series of message handlers (in ASP.NET Web API) or modules (in ASP.NET MVC), each of which performs some operation on the request.

ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services A Microsoft server-side Web technology.

The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...

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 ...

ASP.NET Core lets you bundle up business functionality along with its related UI into a view component that you can reuse in throughout your application. In this column, I'm going to take a look at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft introduced the ASP.NET Web Matrix integrated development environment to provide an inexpensive method for creating ASP.NET Web applications and services. This is a valuable tool for creating ...

Over two years in the making, Striquent's Webaptive CMS (news, site) is now available for users looking to take their ASP.NET web applications to the next level by adding content management ...

App.config and Web.config files are a great way to add flexibility to your .NET application without having to modify code in the future. They also allow clients or end users to make configuration ...