(Rick Strahl) Understanding how ASP.NET really works under the covers can help you make decisions that can make your ASP.NET applications better. Understanding the innards of a platform always provides me with a certain satisfaction and level of comfort, as well as insight that helps me write better

(Joe Lima) Masking or anonymizing a Web server involves removing identifying details that intruders could use to detect your OS and Web server vendor and version. This information, while providing little or no utility to legitimate users, is often the starting place for crackers, blackhat hackers an

Displaying the local time on a Web page is a common interface feature. But what if you want to display the time of a different time zone? By performing various temporal calculations and combining that information with JavaScript, you can convert local time to a destination time of a different zone.

During this session, our presenter will cover the breadth and depth of the unit, web, and load testing technologies that are bundled with Visual Studio Team System. First, we will take a look at Unit Testing, how you generate Unit test skeleton classes from existing source code, how you modify the u

(Mark Strawmyer) A design pattern is a solution that focuses on solving a particular problem or issue that commonly occurs. Design patterns are often associated with object-oriented programming, but they are not exclusive to it. Non-computing disciplines also have concepts similar to the design patt

Data migration, though routine, can cause problems for IT managers. To minimize business impacts of migration – downtime, data loss, and cost – you need a reliable methodology to help you plan, design, migrate and validate data migration projects. (R)

(Tony Patton) I know very few application developers who spend 100 percent of their time with actual programming work. We often have to devote a portion of our time to system maintenance, as well as the usual array of meetings. Find out how the .NET Framework’s Windows Services (formerly known as NT

(Michael Abeln) It has been argued that the three most important resources of a corporation are the capital resources, the human resources and the information resources. In this article, I will attempt to show the interdependency of these resources from a strategic perspective.

(Scott Mitchell) In addition to this article series on ASP.NET 2.0’s site navigation, I am also currently authoring an article series on ASP.NET 2.0’s membership, roles, and profile. The membership system in ASP.NET provides a programmatic API for creating and managing user accounts, whereas the rol

(HanneSThEGreaT) With this article, I want to provide a detailed explanation of the Form object’s Property Window changes (from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic.NET). This will be very useful when you come from a Visual Basic 6 background. This article is not just aimed at VB6 veterans but to anyone