(wumpus1) Microsoft’s .NET framework has robust support for encryption in the System.Security.Cryptography namespace. Everything you need to perform encryption is available in that class, but it’s difficult to understand unless you have a firm grasp of cryptographic theory. Over the last four mo

(Bill Horst) This article provides an introduction to defining operators in VB .NET 2005. This new language feature allows VB .NET users to specify operator methods on their own classes and structures. For example, an operator could be written to multiply together two Classes.

(Deborah Kurata) One of the key tenets of .NET is that it makes developers more productive. And this is basically true—it is easier to build applications, including Web applications. You can build a complex Web page with its associated business object and stored procedures in less than four hour

(Jayesh Patel, Bryan Acker and Robert McGovern) While 100 percent backward compatible with ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0 brings a number of internal changes to ASP.NET. These include changes to the code model, compilation, page lifecycle, and more. This article outlines those changes.

An effective .NET application support strategy is absolutely critical to minimize the risk of deploying .NET applications. To help, this paper: 1. Identifies the main components of the Microsoft .NET architecture 2. Outlines the most common .NET application problems 3. Presents strategi

(Brad Kingsley) Before the .NET Framework, there was no good way to handle errors within Active Server Pages Web applications. As a result, developers failed to address what would happen when an error occurred in their code. If they did decide to address errors, they were forced to use an On Error R

(Mark Goetsch) So far, you and I have journeyed through the realm of class diagrams. Classes are a good start for understanding how an application is hooked together, and while they describe the static relationships between the objects in the system, classes are just an abstraction of the software i

(Alejandro Gervasio) In the last part of this three-part series of articles, we will find out how to improve the form generator we created in part II by learning about Polymorphism and adding it to the mix.

(Blane Warrene) As of Linux kernel 2.4 and above, Netfilter has been included as a kernel extension by the majority of (if not all) Linux distributors. iptables is its counterpart and the tool for managing firewall rules. The duo, which I call simply “iptables”, creates a stateful firewall on a Linu

(Dino Esposito) A partial class has its source code split over multiple source files, each of which appears to contain an ordinary class definition from beginning to end. Ideal for team development, partial classes simplify coding and avoid manual file synchronization in all those situations in whic