(Ulf Mattsson) Encryption can provide strong security for data at rest, but developing a database encryption strategy must take many factors into consideration. Organizations must balance between the requirement for security and the desire for excellent performance. Encryption at the database level,

(Tim Chapman) The database organization process called normalization is a series of steps to guide you through analyzing and designing relations in your database schema; the goal is to try to reduce redundant data and inconsistent functional dependencies.

(Waleed El Tamimi) Merely, every application today uses a relational database as its backend, applications used to be monolithic and structured, but with the need for more functionality and ease of use, applications became larger, more complex and harder to maintain, and the solution for rapid devel

(John Macomber) This article will use the example project that was created in Automating Excel with VB 2005 Express. If you haven’t already done so, download the project zip file from here!

(Theo Schlossnagle) Mission-critical is a commonly abused term. Some think it describes any architecture that they run; others believe it is a term for “systems that launch spacecraft.” For the purpose of further discussion, we will equate mission-critical systems with business-critical systems. Bus

(Rehaman SK) One of the best new features of the forthcoming ASP.NET 2.0 will be the ObjectDataSource control. However, as I found out in my experimentation what seems like a simple control has some complex behaviors to master to get it working properly. If (like me) you have an existing data access

(Ziran Sun) With the inclusion of the FileUpload control in ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has finally given us a WebControl to handle file uploading. In this article we’ll examine the new FileUpload control and show just how easy it is to build an ASP.NET Web Form that accepts user uploads.

(Anand Thakur) This article serves as a guide to using System.DirectoryServices (SDS) ADSI to access user and group in the Windows Active Directory. Authenticate a user against the Active Directory using the user ID and password.

(Peter Aitken) The fundamental technologies of the Web, HTTP and HTML, are by their very nature stateless. In other words, they do not provide a way to keep track of information between page views. Of course, many of the things we do on the Web require that state information be maintained in some wa

(Matthew Cochran) One interesting new feature of the VB.Net is the “yield” keyword. Basically it is used to iterate through objects returned by a method. It creates a state engine in IL so you can create methods that retain their state and dont have to go through the pain of maintaining state in yo