If you want to build a Web application quickly, do it with ASP.NET Web Forms. However, you have to be willing to give up a lot: client-side coding and Ajax is more awkward in Web Forms than MVC, you ...

[Editor's note: Peter rewrote this article after a reader pointed out he over-engineered his original solution. ("What can I say: The code worked -- I just didn't need nearly as much code as I thought ...

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Web Services provide a new level of interaction to ASP.NET applications. The ability to access and use a remote Web service to perform a function within an ASP.NET Web application enables programmers ...

Take advantage of filters to execute custom code at specific points in the request processing pipeline and avoid code duplication across actions. Filters allow you to run code at certain stages of the ...