Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database. In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications ...

Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a ...

ASP.NET Identity is a simple but robust framework allowing you to easily inject custom authentication logic into your applications. ASP.NET Identity is the latest in a series of frameworks that exist ...

Web Matrix is a design tool for ASP that's simpler to use than Visual Studio. Learn how to write ASP.NET pages with it Microsoft is tipping the scales in its favor with ASP.NET Web Matrix, a free ...

Azure Application Insights is an extensible application performance management (APM) service that can be used to monitor performance, detect anomalies, and diagnose performance issues for a web ...