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Sometimes you will need to export some data from an ASP page and use another charset than the encoding you have specified in Web.config. This short sample EncodeString function lets you write response string data using any code page.

Well by now many of you have probably heard, or at least caught wind of, the fact that the next version of ASP is not going to be ASP 4.0. It is instead going to be called ASP+, and what a difference that plus sign makes. This article describes the new ASP in a great detail. Topics include: The New ASP+ Infrastructure, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability, Quicker and Easier Development, Easier Manageability, Improved Security, Language Support, and Web Services.

It's easier than Classic ASP to send email within an ASP.NET application. All you need is to use SmtpMail class in your application. Current example uses SmtpMail class to send a web message to your email. You may use it with copying and edit a few lines in code.

Sample chapter from "ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution" on deploying the web site. Describes in detail how you should deploy your site once you've finished it, discusses deployment of database and application components separately.

Recently, I had a requirement to put together a website that deals with taking somewhat elaborate financial surveys. While the questions and answers themselves are good candidates for being database driven, there were a large number of nuiances ranging from UI items, business rules, and calculations that just didn't fit into a database driven strategy. With this in mind, my initial strategy was to create version specific classes and reference them in version specific ASP.NET pages. Of course, this accomplished the initial requirement. However, whenever a new version needs to be implemented, I had to copy all of the ASP.NET pages and modify the references to the appropriate version specific class name. Refactoring provides a better alternative and here's how: