Links to ASP.NET Articles and Tutorials

Microsoft has provided numerous online article and video tutorials to allow you to learn ASP.NET technologies without having to purchase books and videos. Below are links to several tutorials that have been useful to me. I hope this makes it easy for you to find what you need when you need it.

This has been an ongoing list, so you might find articles using the 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 framework. However, if there is another article available with a different framework, Microsoft typically has links to the other frameworks in the right column. For instance, I develop for several clients who use Windows Server 2000, which requires the 2.0 framework and isn't compatible with the 3.0+ frameworks. But I did once take several articles in differing frameworks and compared them side by side and didn't notice any differences at all. So if there are differences, they are likely minor in most cases.

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET 2.0 for Beginners - Videos

AJAX

• ASP.NET AJAX Videos
• Download ASP.NET AJAX Framework

Visual Web Developer Express / Visual Studio

• Download Visual Web Developer Express
• Visual Studio Team Videos
• Guided Tour of Creating Web Sites in Visual Web Developer - Creating Pages, Data-Driven Web Pages, Additional Page Techniques, Customizing Web Pages, Building Professional Web Sites (Visual Studio), Building Professional Web Sites (Visual Web Developer Express Edition)

User Controls

• ASP.NET User Controls Overview
• How to: Create an ASP.NET User Control
• How to: Include a User Control in an ASP.NET Web Page
• ASP.NET Web Server Controls and CSS Styles
• Walkthrough: Creating Reusable Elements with ASP.NET User Controls
• How to: Convert Web Forms Pages into ASP.NET User Controls
• Control Caching - Caching Portions of an ASP.NET Page

ASP.net Miscellaneous

• ASP.NET Web Site Paths
• ASP.NET Web Site Layout - Reserved Application Folders
• Configuring ASP.NET Applications
• How to: Create Web.config Files
• ASP.NET Themes and Skins
• How to: Define ASP.NET Themes - Page Themes, Global Themes, Creating Skins
• ASP.NET Master Pages - Includes Nested ASP.NET Master Pages
• Page and Application Context in ASP.NET Web Applications

SQL Server

• SQL Server 2005 Express for Beginners

DAL

• Data Access Tutorials
• Creating a Data Access Layer
• Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables in VS 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0
• Designing a Great Data Layer in .NET
• Building Layered Web Applications with Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0

SQL Membership Provider

• SQL Membership Provider - A video by Patrick Hynds on how to use the SQL Membership Provider and aspnet_regsql.exe utility.
• .NET Framework 2.0: Using login controls for an existing data source by creating a custom membership provider in ASP.NET 2.0 - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 2.0: How to: Implement a Custom Membership User - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 3.0: How to: Implement a Custom Membership User - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 2.0: Implementing a Membership Provider - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 3.0: Implementing a Membership Provider - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 2.0: Sample Membership Provider Implementation - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 3.0: Sample Membership Provider Implementation - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 3.0: How to: Customize the ASP.NET CreateUserWizard Control - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 3.0: MembershipProvider Class - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 3.0: MembershipProviderCollection Methods - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 3.0: MembershipProviderCollection Class - A Microsoft article.
• .NET Framework 3.0: MembershipProviderCollection Members - A Microsoft article.
• Examining ASP.NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile - Parts 1-9 - A series of articles by Scott Mitchell.
• Writing a Custom Membership Provider - An article by Wei-Meng Lee.
• Create a custom Profile provider that persists user-specific settings to XML files. - Part 7 - An article by Scott Mitchell.
• A Look at ASP.NET 2.0's Provider Model - An article by Scott Mitchell.
• Writing a Custom Membership Provider for the Login Control in ASP.NET 2.0 - An article by Dina Fleet Berry.
• How to add a Login, Roles and Profile system to an ASP.NET 2.0 app in only 24 lines of code - An article by Scott Guthrie (ScottGu).
• AProvider Toolkit - A Microsoft article.
• ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model, Visual Basic - A Microsoft article.
• ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model, C# - A Microsoft article.

Custom Site Map Provider

• Building a Custom Database-Driven Site Map Provider
• The SQL Site Map Provider You've Been Waiting For (Feb 2006)
• Storing Site Maps in SQL Server (June 2005)

Miscellaneous

• Fetching Images from Databases
• 10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications
• Retrieving Scalar Data from a Stored Procedure - includes Getting the identity using SCOPE_IDENTITY
• Getting the identity of the most recently added record

Facebook and ASP.NET 2.0

• Why I’m switching to Facebook.NET from the Facebook Developer’s Toolkit
• List of Facebook SDKs for .NET