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 ...

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 ...

Learn to handle runtime errors using exceptions and return appropriate error codes and error messages in ASP.NET Web API. Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API is a ...

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target. Logging is an essential feature for any application, as it is ...

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When you start thinking of a web app as a web app -- i.e. one that you want to be able to open multiple tabs in, close the window and come back later, let the window sit in a background tab for a week ...

OK, here are the details. I have an SQL server with a database that is currently in used on a live website. The website is currently running as a cold fusion app. I have spent the past week converting ...

Windows hosting services can host your websites and apps on dedicated Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET or .NET. In fact, they can even run different products like Exchange or Microsoft SQL Server.