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Top 10 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files – Part One
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Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET 2.0: Deleting Data
(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 2.0’s data source and data Web controls make working with data much easier than in previous versions by allowing for a declarative approach to working with data. In short, the data source controls make it possible to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data without having t
Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2005 SMO – Part II
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The Business Case for the Semantic Web
(Michael C. Daconta, Leo J. Obrst and Kevin T. Smith) In May 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila unveiled a vision of the future in an article in Scientific American. This vision included the promise of the semantic web to build knowledge and understanding from raw data. Many reade
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