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Learn how to add a connection string to your app.config file in Visual Studio 2005, encrypt that connection string, and introduce a tool for automatically encrypting connection strings for ASP.NET.
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Discover a way to make SQL databases easy to deploy within a MSI file along with your applications.
Encrypt DataSets for Offline Storage
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Learn how to encrypt offline data, .NET style. Paul Kimmel offers you the opportunity to experiment with ADO.NET, XML serialization, streams, and the DPAPI—technologies you can use to encrypt user data.
Managed C++: Authenticating Users via Hash Codes
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For situations when a company doesn't want the responsibility of maintaining a user password file, Tom Archer presents a mechanism that stores and uses the hash codes of passwords instead of the actual passwords to validate users.
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