(John Tabernik and Scott Mitchell) Passing parameters from one page to another is a very common task in Web development. Granted, it’s importance and frequency has faded a bit with ASP.NET’s inherent preference for postback forms, but regardless, there are still many situations in which you need to

(Robert L. Bogue) To understand what OLAP is, you must first understand a few OLAP terms. OLAP works on facts, and facts are numbers. A fact could be a count of orders, the sum of the order amounts, or an average of order amounts. (R)

(Dennis Fisher) Virus writers have once again gotten the drop on anti-virus vendors and IT administrators with a new technique that’s finding early and considerable success.

There are three commonly accepted baseline implementation and function requirements for a successful data encryption solution. However, each system layer approach delivers an encrypted solution in a different manner and address a multitude of different requirements. These requirements are broken out

(Paul Kimmel) Data stored on a client machine represents a security hole in all of your carefully considered plans. This article borrows from the IssueVision smart client sample application to demonstrate how to protect offline data. IssueVision is a sample help desk management application that gene

Code Access Security represents a fundamentally different way of controlling access rights to protected resources. Traditionally, permissions such as access to the file system, databases or network were allocated based on characteristics of the user. All processes executed by the user would assume a

(Jeremy Jones) Python is a multipurpose programming language: it is object oriented, is dynamic, can accomplish much in few lines of code, is syntactically clean and elegant, “fits the brain well,” and is an excellent language for programmers of all ages and skill levels. These characteristics have

(Saravana Kumar) Tracing is the new feature introduced in ASP.NET 1.x. This feature is used to track application execution flow which can be used for diagnosing problems in production environment. Tracing also provides other details like Session Details, View State details and debugging messages emi

(Brian Mains) Custom editors modify any type of property, and can be linked to any property through the Editor metadata attribute. Editors use the IWindowsFormsEditorService interface to display a Windows form as a drop-down box or a dialog box, within the Visual Studio .NET environment.

(Eric Lundquist) The possibility that the FBI may have to scrap its $170 million Virtual Case File software program was described by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., in one report as a “train disaster in slow motion.”