(Jonathan Yarden) When the industry first adopted the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) as the ubiquitous e-mail transmission standard, we didn’t have the Internet security problems that now plague e-mail. Although e-mail chain letters and some minor junk e-mailing surfaced occasionally, the firs

(Keenan A. Newton) Most applications require some sort of configuration data, whether it is a file resource, a database connection string, user settings, a Web service URL, or simply organizational branding requirements. To address these issues prior to .NET, developers had to utilize some type of A

(Dale Oberg) Convert solutions from Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office and Microsoft Visual Basic 2005. Migrate the Trey Research IIS Log Analyzer solution from VBA to Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office to highlight issues you may encounte

(Thiru Thangarathinam) Most enterprise applications today need to send mail. This means the platform should provide the necessary support for applications to send these mails. In the case of .NET applications, .NET provides excellent support for sending e-mails through a set of intuitive classes.

(Dimitrios Markatos) In a previous article I had written on Dynamic Column Sorting and Paging in ASP.NET, I demonstrated one of nine ways one could page and bi-directionally sort a DataGrid. I opted for the old hidden field method. At any rate, this method, among the eight others works fine, and it

(Douglas Reilly) In the beginning, there was the recordset, a central feature of classic ADO. Like a Swiss army knife, it wasn’t the perfect tool for every job, but given the correct configuration, it could do whatever you needed it to do.

(Laurence Moroney) The Web Services Interoperability organization (WSI) has developed a whole stable of standards upon which Web services commerce and communication can be executed securely. These standards are in great demand and many developers have already gotten their feet wet with a few of them

(Peng Liu) In this paper, we propose four architectures for intrusion-tolerant database systems. While traditional secure database systems rely on prevention controls, an intrusion-tolerant database system can operate through attacks in such a way that the system can continue delivering essential se

(Craig Borysowich) This paper discusses object technology and database management as they interact on software development projects. It calls attention to the difficult problems faced by the designers and the development team. The paper points out that the important issue is not the structure o

(Jim Paterson) When people talk about object persistence, they usually mean the storage of objects or their states in a database. This will usually be a relational database, or possibly an alternative, in the form of an object database such as db4objects, described in a previous article.