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This article examines how to can create a Web service in .NET and then utilize it from a classic ASP page on your Web server, thereby providing an API that can be utilized by both your ASP.NET Web pages and classic ASP pages.

In this article we will take a quick look at two methods for creating SHA1 passwords for use on the web using .NET. It is dangerous to store passwords anywhere in plain text!! SHA1 gives a quick and easy way to encode a password into a non-human readable form. This means it is safer to store in a database, and should the database be viewed by anyone who shouldn't know the passwords, it will be much more difficult for them to work out what a user's password is.

Have you ever needed to have an image of some text generated dynamically on the fly? There are tons of possible applications for this type of thing, but prior to ASP.NET it was a relatively difficult thing to do. This article explains how to generate text images on the fly using ASP.NET. Source code available for download.

This tutorial covers one option for including a common header and footer into your HTML pages without having to modify the html page itself. Technologies used are the System.XML, System.Net, and System.IO .Net classes.

The following article shows how to AJAX power your web application using the ever popular ASP.NET platform using Visual Studio and AJAX Toolkit. Learn how to improve performance and add new features using AJAX with ASP.NET