(James Avery) You cannot expect to build a first-class application unless you use the best available tools. Besides well-known tools such as Visual Studio® .NET, there are a multitude of small, lesser-known tools available from the .NET community. In this article, I’m going to introduce you to some

(Chris Root) The PHP crypt function is a one-way encryption function that lets you confirm that an entered password matches a stored encrypted one — without having to decrypt anything. This article explains how it works.

We recommend that you only use C languages and Win32 APIs for any add-in components that are loaded by core operating system processes. Two examples of core operating system processes are Winlogon.exe and Lsass.exe.

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(Edward J. Correia) Proponents of PHP would rather forget that it once stood for “personal home page.” Zend Technologies, which makes development and acceleration tools for PHP, says that while the technology has been available for years, enterprise adoption has been somewhat less than universal.

(David McAmis) Reporting has always been a sore spot for application developers. Most applications require some sort of output, either on screen or in printed form and there have been a variety of tools that developers have tried over the years to help them quickly create this output without having

(Vernon Habersetzer) Think for a moment about the possibility of your company’s infrastructure being in the crosshairs of a serious hacker. How valuable would information about your infrastructure be? Do you really know how much sensitive information is publicly accessible or easily obtainable w

(John Kaster) This is a log of the chat room during the live audio chat from December 13, 2004 on Delphi 2005 with Ramesh Theivendran. Ramesh discusses .NET data remoting support in Delphi 2005.

Information is the life blood of industry and government, but can you trust the quality of the data you use to carry out your day-to-day business? Is the information stored in your company’s information technology systems up-to-date, consistent, complete and accurate? Are your external data so

(Greg Griffiths) One of the most common uses of the Internet is to display information in a tabular format; examples of this include: –Lists of events in date order. –Contents of an article. –Price lists.