Connect to MySQL from ASP.NET - ASP.NET tutorial

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This tutorial covers the fundamentals involved in building an ASP.NET application. From a syntactical point of view, writing .NET code is similar to writing the classic ASP code that you may have seen during the late dot-com era. Many of the key symbols remain the same, and even some of the syntax survives. However, the entire underlying execution model changed dramatically between classic ASP and ASP.NET.

In this article, we're going to study the DataList control which is one of the most often used controls provided by ASP.NET.

A step-by-step tutorial which explains 2 ways of displaying data from an SQL Server database using ADO.NET in an ASP.NET page. Every step has been explained in detail. Online demo and source code available for download.

ASP.NET is Microsoft’s extension to HTML. It requires an ASP.NET compatible web server. Such as, Abyss or IIS (Internet Information Services from Microsoft). There are however plug-ins for Apache Web Server also. Before you continue you will need to know VB.NET which is required for the scripting part of the tutorial.

This tutorial covers working with application state and application-wide events within your ASP.NET application. In normal desktop applications, the notion of a global meeting place for various parts of an application is well-understood. For example, MFC, a C++ class library supporting low-level Windows development, includes a class named CWinApp that holds state useful throughout the program. This state includes such items as a handle to the current instance of the application, a handle to the main window, and the parameters that were passed in when the application started. The CWinApp class also runs the message loop—something that can be done only within the global scope of a Windows application. A running Windows application contains one and only one instance of the CWinApp class, and it's perennially available from anywhere within the application.