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Web Services Security in The .NET Framework

By Quin Street - Published 01/10/2008

The proliferation of Web Services on the market and their universal acceptance on the Internet makes them more vulnerable to security threats. Therefore, we need to tighten security for our Web Services and pay attention to it. With ASP.NET, Microsoft has provided the necessary features for securing our Web Services and other Web resources. In this article, Mansoor Ahmed Siddiqui explains how to unleash the power of ASP.NET security.

The Basics of Manipulating File Access Control Lists with C#

By Jani Jarvinen - Published 09/26/2007

Learn about file access control lists and how to use C# to read and modify them to improve the security of your applications and your IT infrastructure.

XSD Tutorial: XML Schemas For Beginners

By Simon Sprott - Published 05/24/2007

This five-part article gives a basic overview of the building blocks underlying XML Schemas, showing how and when to use them.

.NET Tip: Creating a Password-Checking Function

By Eric Smith - Published 09/29/2006

Password security is an easy way to tighten access to any application. Use this function to check a password against a set of rules, as well as a set of previously used passwords.

Asynchronous Web Services in .NET Using WSE 2.0

By rekha kodali - Published 10/28/2005

Discover an approach to efficiently communicate with a Web service asynchronously.

"Indigo" CTP Released Today

By Bradley Jones - Published 03/16/2005

Microsoft released the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of their next-generation Web-Services technology, "Indigo," today.

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Using VC++ .NET

MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)

By Nick Wienholt - Published 04/18/2011

The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.

.NET Nuts & Bolts

.NET Framework: Collections and Generics

By Mark Strawmyer - Published 06/23/2011

The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...

Visual Basic Today

How to Determine Which Office Version is Installed with VB.NET and C#

By Hannes Du Preez - Published 01/04/2013

Knowing which version of MS Office is installed on the client computer is vital; unfortunately, many programmers see this as an afterthought. Hannes du Preeze shows you four different ways to determine the Office versions installed so that you don't make this mistake.

Programming Insights

Building an Azure Queuing Message Pipeline

By Jeffrey Juday - Published 01/15/2013

A developer building messaging solutions with Azure Queuing and Azure Service Bus should follow a Pipeline pattern when processing a significant number of different messages. One approach to building a Pipeline is to layer a message following an Envelope pattern.

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Real-World Virtualization for Your Business

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