(KedarRKulkarni) Cross site scripting attacks are very common and easy way of trying to break into any website. To secure web page from this common security threat, Asp.net always had request validation mechanism in place.

(Scott Guthrie) Earlier this week I blogged about the release of the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. ASP.NET MVC 4 is a significant update that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities. One of the improvements I’m most excited about is the support it brings for creating “Web APIs”. Today

(Andrea Kapahnke) IBM InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager is a performance analysis and tuning tool for managing DB2 systems by using a web interface and helps organizations resolve emergent database problems before they impact the business. InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager Extended Edition pro

(Alok Pandey) The ListSearchExtender provides the ability to search items in ListBox and DropDownList control by typing. It performs searching on the basis of typed input. Here are some properties of the ListSearchExtender, of which we will use in our application.

(Henrik F Nielsen) Several of the ASP.NET Web API tutorials (see for example “Your First ASP.NET Web API”) show how you can use ASP.NET Web API with MVC applications. However, you can equally well add a Web API to a Web Form enabling the same Web API support as in MVC applications.

(Eric Vogel) Developers often run into similar problems when architecting software. To help tackle this problem, software design patterns have become quite popular. The Strategy Pattern is a common design pattern that allows an application to dynamically pick an appropriate method at runtime based o

(Ben Nadel) The last couple of days have been really exciting as we’ve been exploring the new Closures and Function Expressions that have been added to ColdFusion 10. First, we looked at the general structure and behavior of closures and function expressions; then, we looked at how closures interact

(Scott) In this last article of the series we will look at the security aspects of HTTP, including how to identify users, how HTTP authentication works, and see why some scenarios require HTTPS (secure HTTP). Along the way, we are also going to learn a bit about how to manage state with HTTP.

(Sasha Goldshtein) During the last few years, I’ve been asked many times why I bother exercising my x86 and x64 assembly language skills, and especially why I find assembly language important to teach at courses, conferences, and one-off sessions.

(Eric Lippert) When building simulations of real-world phenomena, or when generating test data for algorithms that will be consuming information from the real world, it is often highly desirable to produce pseudo-random data that conform to some nonuniform probability distribution.