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Securing PDF documents
Review of encryption and signing schemes, offered by PDF specification and supported by PDF management tools and components.
Cryptographic Solutions for .NET Developers: Hashing and Encryption
Learn how to use cryptography to improve the security of your applications. Discover the basic building blocks for encryption and hashing using C#.
ASP.NET Tip: Encrypting a Configuration File Section
ASP.NET 2.0 enables you to encrypt portions of your configuration file. You can pick a section in your Web.config file to encrypt and then decrypt.
VB .NET Tip: Encryption in Just Twelve Lines of Code!
If you don't want the overhead or complexity of a government-standard encryption technique, there is a simple solution.
Encrypt Connection Strings in VS 2005 .config Files
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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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
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.

Portable Databases
In today's world of mobile apps, it's not an unreasonable expectation to want a database that's small, lightweight, and travels with the app from device to device. Take a quick look at what's available out there, and a few of the pros and cons of each.

Creating Simple Classes and Objects with Visual Basic
Learn how to create your own class and create objects representing that class using Visual Basic.
Working with State Machines in the .NET Framework
Arun Karthick introduces you to the state machine model and shows you how to create a simple working state machine sample using the .NET framework in the C# language.