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Security Practices: ASP.NET 2.0 Security Practices at a Glance

by Sheonarayan on 4/5/2010 9:56:40 AM | Visit: 439
This module presents a set of consolidated practices designed to address ASP.NET version 2.0 security issues. The answers and recommendations presented in this module are designed to supplement the companion modules and additional guidance. The practices are organized by various categories that represent those areas where mistakes are most often made.

Improving SQL Server Performance

by Poster on 3/2/2010 12:52:28 AM | Visit: 717
This chapter provides proven development and configuration techniques to help improve the performance and scalability of SQL Server. Topics covered include designing efficient schemas, optimizing queries, tuning indexes, writing efficient stored procedures, analyzing and understanding execution plans, and much more.

Garbage Collection: Automatic Memory Management in the Microsoft .NET Framework

by Sheonarayan on 2/25/2010 1:03:52 AM | Visit: 855
Garbage collection in the Microsoft .NET common language runtime environment completely absolves the developer from tracking memory usage and knowing when to free memory. However, you'll want to understand how it works. Part 1 of this two-part article on .NET garbage collection explains how resources are allocated and managed, then gives a detailed step-by-step description of how the garbage collection algorithm works. Also discussed are the way resources can clean up properly when the garbage collector decides to free a resource's memory and how to force an object to clean up when it is freed.

Code Review: .NET Application Performance and Scalability

by Sheonarayan on 2/23/2010 8:23:58 AM | Visit: 537
This chapter helps you locate and review performance and scalability issues in your managed code applications. Learn to ask the key questions that will quickly expose performance and scalability bottlenecks in applications that poorly implement .NET technologies such as common language runtime coding techniques, ASP.NET, Enterprise Services, remoting, Web services, and ADO.NET.

Application Architecture Guide 2.0

by Raja on 2/19/2010 9:46:27 AM | Visit: 538
Welcome to the patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 community site! This guide provides design-level guidance for the architecture and design of applications built on the .NET Framework. It focuses on the most common types of applications, partitioning application functionality into layers, components, and services, and walks through their key design characteristics. This guide is a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, product teams, and industry experts.

Threading in C#

by Raja on 2/18/2010 1:05:06 PM | Visit: 464
C# supports parallel execution of code through multithreading. A thread is an independent execution path, able to run simultaneously with other threads. More on this .....

How to rotate JavaScript ads during ASP.NET AJAX requests

by Raja on 2/14/2010 12:53:36 PM | Visit: 270
A common question that I find myself fielding lately is how to handle the problem of rotating JavaScript based advertisements. As AJAX becomes ubiquitous on ad supported sites, we must take care that decreasing page views don't also mean proportionally decreasing revenues.

Building Secure ASP.NET Pages and Controls

by SheoNarayan on 2/12/2010 9:49:53 AM | Visit: 275
This article shows you a variety of implementation techniques to improve the security of your ASP.NET Web pages and controls. The chapter shows you how to counter the threat of cross-site scripting, session hijacking, cookie replay, parameter manipulation and other top threats. It also describes the techniques you should use to develop a secure forms authentication solution.

Introduction to JOINs - Basic of JOINs

by Raja on 2/11/2010 10:23:53 AM | Visit: 359
All about joins in SQL Server

Integrating PayPal Payments into E-Commerce Applications with ASP.NET

by Raja on 2/10/2010 9:27:38 AM | Visit: 369
E-Commerce applications require mechanisms for payment. Although more commonly than not e-Commerce sites will use full credit card processing gateways, giving PayPal as an additional option of payment provides additional payment options for your customers, especially those that don't want to pay by credit card over the Internet. ....

Use regular expressions to validate/format a string

by Raja on 2/9/2010 4:59:16 AM | Visit: 222
This is an impressive collection (that I found somewhere on the Net) of various functions to validate or format string in Javascript. The code is very compact.

10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications

by Poster on 2/6/2010 11:04:42 AM | Visit: 423
This article discusses: Common ASP.NET performance myths Useful performance tips and tricks for ASP.NET Suggestions for working with a database from ASP.NET Caching and background processing with ASP.NET

.NET Data Access Architecture Guide

by SheoNarayan on 2/6/2010 10:17:53 AM | Visit: 373
This document provides guidelines for implementing an ADO.NET-based data access layer in a multi-tier .NET-based application. It focuses on a range of common data access tasks and scenarios, and presents guidance to help you choose the most appropriate approaches and techniques.

Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers

by SheoNarayan on 2/6/2010 9:13:01 AM | Visit: 406
These guidelines are intended to help class library designers understand the trade-offs between different solutions. There might be situations where good library design requires that you violate these design guidelines. Such cases should be rare, and it is important that you provide a solid justification for your decision. The section provides naming and usage guidelines for types in the .NET Framework as well as guidelines for implementing common design patterns.

Rendering ASP.NET Script References into the Html Header

by SheoNarayan on 2/6/2010 9:09:44 AM | Visit: 215
ASP.NET natively supports script embedding only into the body of the HTML document which is limited in many ways if you need more control over how scripts load under program control. In this post I'll show one of my components that allows embedding scripts and script references in the header of the document as well as many useful script embedding features for ASP.NET.

DataTable - Adding, Modifying, Deleting, Filtering, Sorting rows & Reading/Writing from/to Xml

by SheoNarayan on 2/6/2010 8:59:56 AM | Visit: 294
In this article, I am going to explain how to Add, Modify, Delete, Sort, Filter rows of the DataTable and also loading data from xml and writing data into xml. I will also talk about writing/reading Schema of the DataTable.

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