(Michael Volodarsky) Web applications are among the most common computing services that are exposed to the Internet, and thus they pose an inviting target to anyone who wants to break into your network to steal sensitive information, tamper with your data, or otherwise compromise your system. En

(Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello) In its first release, ASP.NET introduced forms authentication. This provided a powerful framework for handling user authentication in a secure fashion and with an easy-to-use API. The core of forms authentication hasn’t changed in ASP.NET 2.0, so most of the tri

(John Papa) ADO.NET 2.0 sports some exciting enhancements to the core classes found in ADO.NET 1.x and introduces a variety of new classes, all of which promise to improve performance, flexibility, and efficiency. There have even been some major changes throughout the lifecycle of the pre-beta and b

(Boris Eligulashvili) In some cases, the results of the use of the DateTimePicker control can be confused—implicitly initialized. This tip describes what you can do to avoid confusion.

(Thom Robbins) The .NET Framework 2.0 introduces a variety of features and enhancements. One of these is the addition of Partial Classes. This new Framework features enables a single class definition that can be split across multiple physical files. During the compilation process, these separate fil

(Alejandro Gervasio) In this article, we work directly with a standalone caching class, showing how it interacts with other objects. We will work with aggregation and composition to achieve our goals, which include implementing a time expiry based caching mechanism.

(Scott) The debugger in Visual Studio 2005 is an amazing piece of software. You can debug C# and C++, Visual Basic and VBScript. Step over managed code, native code, mobile code, and T-SQL code. You can debug locally, or you can debug remotely. You can debug assemblies hosted by SQL Server, and Java

(Robert Thompson) Record data warehouse growth continues. Some estimates project in excess of 100 percent per year – and nearly a third of data warehouses in North America exceed a terabyte in size already. DW managers are inevitably investigating information life cycle management (ILM) strategies a

(Christian Wenz) Most of the time, the date and time functionalities of PHP 5 are used for printing out the current date and time—to pretend that the web page is up to date (you would be surprised how many larger websites actually use this). But apart from that, working with date and time in PHP off

(Dino Esposito) It’s much easier to build a rich user interface into your Web application in ASP.NET 2.0 than it was in previous versions. Master Pages let you build pages based on existing templates of markup and code. ASP.NET 2.0 wizards make implementing navigation easier. In addition, you can ad