In this chapter from Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server learn about MCMS built-in caching and how to enhance performance on your MCMS site by using ASP.NET output caching....

Model your threats. Identify vulnerabilities. Design for security. Adopt threat modeling to design secure Web applications...

Dino reviews the pros and cons of cookieless sessions in ASP.NET and discusses why you should avoid storing valuable information in the session state....

This article is the third part of the series of articles in this journal to describe our Aspect.NET project an aspect-oriented programming AOP framework for Microsoft.NET based on a number of new ideas for the first two articles see 4 and 5 in the References section ....

Recently a number of Web sites have begun to raise some eyebrows within the developer community. What s unique about these sites is that they behave more like a desktop application than a Web application. As you interact with them they quickly display an endless amount of information to your browser without reloading the page. At the Google Maps site...

Since their conception Web services have evolved into a core component of software architectures worldwide. The ability to easily distribute processing allow access via the Internet and componentize architectures makes Web services a compelling choice for interoperability among systems....

One of the most basic ways to navigate within an application is by use of a tab control. Tabs are easy to use and users are very familiar with them. There have been many implementations of tab controls for Web applications but they had often required advanced client-side script that was only supported in a few browsers or they required extensive and...

Security is a very broad field. Even if you have been reading all sorts of security books monitoring all SecurityFocus mailing lists subscribing to various RSS feeds and reading new security whitepapers virus writers can still exploit the latest vulnerability and successfully carry out zero-day attacks. These attacks spread so quickly that professionals...

Rapid application development can be greatly enhanced by using third-party toolsets. These toolsets let a developer add controls or classes whose capabilities represent months of development time in a matter of seconds. Infragistics a market leader in user interface tools enhances its toolset three times a year....

Since the advent of Web development Web developers have sought a way to provide a consistent look and feel across the Web application. This pursuit has resulted in different custom solutions. With the introduction of master pages in ASP.NET 2.0 Microsoft has finally brought the support to the framework level and has given the developers what they...

The introduction of ASP.NET in 2002 signified a big change in Microsoft server-side technologies for building Web sites. It represented a shift from the interpreted Active Server pages ASP to compiled ASP.NET pages. The compiled ASP.NET Web applications were much faster than the interpreted ASP applications and presented the developer with a variety...

Programmatically posting data to a traditional ASP page is an extremely useful and well-known technique. However I recently discovered that posting data to an ASP .NET Web application from another program is not well understood and requires several new programming tricks....

ASP.NET has done an exceptional job of evolving the 3 and n-tier web model in particular the business logic layer. .NET server controls such as DataGrids DataLists and Calendar controls provide adequate presentation- tier elements but their reliance on outdated Web technologies limits their potential....

ASP.NET version 1.0 and 1.1 were giant leaps forward in making data-driven Web sites easier to create. With only a few lines of code you can create Web sites that dynamically query and update databases XML files and more....

Building security into intranet Web applications was always easy just turn on Windows authentication in IIS. But considering the size of the user base for Internet Web applications custom form-based authentication is the only scalable solution....