-------------------------- ASP.NET still renders HTML -------------------------- Unfortunately, Internet still has bandwidth limitations and not every person is running same web browser.

These issues make it necessary to stick with HTML as our mark-up language of choice. This means that web pages won't look quite as amazing as a fully fledged application running under Windows, but with a bit of skill and creative flair, you can make some rather amazing web applications with ASP.NET.

ASP.NET processes all code on server (in a similar way to a normal application). When ASP.NET code has been processed, server returns resultant HTML to client. If client supports JavaScript, then server will use it to make clients browser experience quicker and easier. Even with HTML being limiting factor here, ASP.NET still manages to bring true OOP (Object Oriented Programming) to Internet.

-------------------------- OOP on Internet -------------------------- Object Oriented Programming makes it possible to build extremely large applications, while still keeping your code clean and structured. Now with ASP.NET, we can do same on web. Traditional ASP uses HTML and VBScript (or Jscript) to process and render pages, but because VBScript is a scripting language, you were forced to write spaghetti code (VBScript was entwined in HTML and ended up rather messy in larger applications).

ASP.NET separates code from display, and you can even have pages with no ASP.NET code in them at all. By adding references in your HTML (called controls), you can tell ASP.NET that you want a button here, some text there, and then in your code, you can manipulate what these controls look like, what they display, how big they are, etc.

Controls can do more than just display information. You can add events to controls, so that when a visitor clicks on a button, for example, ASP.NET executes a function of your choice.

-------------------------- Web Services -------------------------- One great feature of ASP.NET are Web Services. Web services mean that you can literally have several pieces of your application on different servers all around world, and entire application will work perfectly and seamlessly. Web services can even work with normal .NET Windows applications.

I've been putting off writing this article because it seemed too hard to write about something I seem to have no control over. I'm actually writing it 5 days before deadline and don't really understand why it has me concerned. If it were easy, it would be done though, and I wouldn't be thinking about it now.

The things I've done instead of writing an article about my worst habit have been dull, tedious, slow and irritating. But I've preferred them all to writing about procrastination! Why do we torture ourselves over some things by delaying them like this? In order to avoid putting my own thoughts to keyboard I went to dictionary to look up word.

procrastinate Pro*cras"ti*nate, v. i. To delay; to be dilatory

Dilatory huh? Guess I better look that up too.

dilatory Dil"a*to*ry, Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish

I guess I knew that, but what can one say about something that can't be helped. I feel as though I'm chained by dread of action. If I get started now, that churning in my stomach and slight twitch in my brow will turn to nausea and a serious headache.

"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible." -- George H. Lonmer

That's it, I'll go look up some quotes on procrastination! That will be forward motion and actually move me toward knowing what others have thought and said about being dilatory. Cool! Off to Google, my favorite search engine, to find some procrastination quotes.

In any moment of decision best thing you can do is right thing, next best thing is wrong thing, and worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt

At least I'm doing something! But I guess if I really look at it, what I wanted to do was to go to ListBot and retrieve my ezine archives before they shut it down on August 20. Did I say that I "wanted" to do that? No, I can't stand thought of slow, tedious cutting and pasting of all my archived newsletters to my own ezine archive.

"How soon not now becomes never." -- Martin Luther

Here's how you do it folks. Log in, click link that says, "View Archive" and then go to your browser menu and click on your first archived issue and then go to "View" and choose "View Page Source" from choices then, Scroll down past all stuff on page until you reach HTML tag marked [pre] and select everything until you reach [/pre] tag which follows your ezine text copy.