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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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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

A Quick Way to Add AutoComplete to a VB.NET 2012 TextBox

By Hannes Du Preez - Published 03/20/2013

The question has been asked whether or not it was possible to have a textbox that can be automatically filled in with the previous URL history, similar to what can be found in any decent web browser. And the answer is...

Programming Insights

ALM Tools for Developers in Visual Studio 2012

By V.N.S Arun - Published 03/18/2013

Although coding is the primary responsibility of a developer, there are many other application lifecycle management activities that need to be performed with the code. V. N. S. Arun takes a look at the list of features offered by Visual Studio 2012 for the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).

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Prepare for the Future with a Virtualized Environment

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Cloud-based Data Backup: A Buyer's Guide - How to Choose a Third-party Provider for Development, Management of Your Data Backup Solution

Many IT executive view cloud computing as an attractive platform for data backup. They know cloud can help protect business-critical data …
Cloud Security Myths and Strategies Uncovered

This executive level paper highlights trends and findings from CIO's 2011 Global Cloud Computing Adoption survey as it relates to Security …

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