ASP.NET Security: 8 Ways to Avoid Attack touches on some of the important steps to securing your .NET driven website. Cross-site Scripting SQL Injection Validate your User Inputs Use Hashing to Store your Passwords Encrypt Sensitive Data Store Secure Information in the Registry Housekeeping before Deploying - Disable trace, , etc Use Sessions,...

"Firefox Preview Release (henceforth refered to as PR) is a Technology Preview. While this software works well enough to be relied upon as your primary browser in most cases, we make no guarantees of its performance or stability. It is a pre-release product and should not be relied upon for mission-critical tasks. See the License Agreement for...

"Firefox Preview Release (henceforth refered to as PR) is a Technology Preview. While this software works well enough to be relied upon as your primary browser in most cases, we make no guarantees of its performance or stability. It is a pre-release product and should not be relied upon for mission-critical tasks. See the License Agreement for...

I came across a ten page ASP.NET FAQ that was posted on the ASP.NET Forums.  You can find the FAQ here: Wintellect - FAQ The Wintellect FAQ is a nice link that should come in handy for both beginner and advanced ASP.NET programmers.

I came across a ten page ASP.NET FAQ that was posted on the ASP.NET Forums.  You can find the FAQ here: Wintellect - FAQ The Wintellect FAQ is a nice link that should come in handy for both beginner and advanced ASP.NET programmers.

This post will serve two purposes: 1.) Make sure to install beta software with care, and 2.) A work around for the SQL Server 2000 installation bug.  Without the former, I would not have run across the latter. Last week I decided to give the Visual Web Developer Express Edition 2005 Beta 1 a go.  Without giving it much...

This post will serve two purposes: 1.) Make sure to install beta software with care, and 2.) A work around for the SQL Server 2000 installation bug.  Without the former, I would not have run across the latter. Last week I decided to give the Visual Web Developer Express Edition 2005 Beta 1 a go.  Without giving it much...

I recently had a need to display some hierarchical data in one of my report pages at work.  I wanted to use the nested repeater method, but wasn't quite sure how to implement it efficiently.  Luckily I found this great knowledge base article from Microsoft called: Display Hierarchical Data by Using Nested Repeater Controls...

I recently had a need to display some hierarchical data in one of my report pages at work.  I wanted to use the nested repeater method, but wasn't quite sure how to implement it efficiently.  Luckily I found this great knowledge base article from Microsoft called: Display Hierarchical Data by Using Nested Repeater Controls...

Running an everyday account as Administrator is not a great idea, and there are several reasons why regular and power users alike should create limited accounts.  A couple of the major reasons for making the switch would include: Running under limited privileges will decrease your chances of having malicious code execute on your...

Running an everyday account as Administrator is not a great idea, and there are several reasons why regular and power users alike should create limited accounts.  A couple of the major reasons for making the switch would include: Running under limited privileges will decrease your chances of having malicious code execute on your...

It was only a matter of time before Hotmail increased their storage capacity.  Microsoft will be providing their "paying" customers with 2 gigabytes.  For people using the free service of Hotmail; our storage will increase to 250 megabytes, and we'll be able to send attachments up to 10 megabytes.   Personally I...

It was only a matter of time before Hotmail increased their storage capacity.  Microsoft will be providing their "paying" customers with 2 gigabytes.  For people using the free service of Hotmail; our storage will increase to 250 megabytes, and we'll be able to send attachments up to 10 megabytes.   Personally I...

I always wondered why hidden__viewstate will still be present in a page's source, even when the entire page's viewstate has been disabled. Apparently you can get rid of this field by eliminating the <form runat="server"> tag.  You can find the discussion about this at the ASP.NET forums here: Thread: page enableviewstate=false

I always wondered why hidden__viewstate will still be present in a page's source, even when the entire page's viewstate has been disabled. Apparently you can get rid of this field by eliminating the <form runat="server"> tag.  You can find the discussion about this at the ASP.NET forums here: Thread: page enableviewstate=false