The release of the .NET Framework 2.0 promises to be the first major upgrade to Windows and Web development tools since the initial release of .NET in 2001. In the realm of general networking, some of the major improvements to the Framework include FTP, Ping, packet tracing, and revised SMTP/MIME classes that are not dependent on the Windows SMTP service....   Read Article.

Ping Identity announced the expansion of its PingFederate Integration Kit family to include both Windows Kerberos and Oracle/Oblix COREid. These new Integration Kits join Ping's existing family of adapters for Windows Login, Java and .NET applications, CA eTrust SiteMinder and Salesforce.com in providing turnkey first and last mile integration...   Read Article.

Microsoft has said it will address a security hole in the IE browser by April 11 or sooner. But certain Web security companies have already developed temporary patches until Redmond fixes the problem on its own....   Read Article.

Microsoft has said it will address a security hole in the IE browser by April 11 or sooner. But certain Web security companies have already developed temporary patches until Redmond fixes the problem on its own....   Read Article.

Ping Identity announced the expansion of its PingFederate Integration Kit family to include both Windows Kerberos and Oracle/Oblix COREid. These new Integration Kits join Ping's existing family of adapters for Windows Login, Java and .NET applications, CA eTrust SiteMinder and Salesforce.com in providing turnkey first and last mile integration...   Read Article.

By now you've probably already created your first 'Hello World' application using one of the languages in the .NET Framework such as C# or VB.NET ­ or perhaps you've even managed VC++....   Read Article.

By now you've probably already created your first 'Hello World' application using one of the languages in the .NET Framework such as C# or VB.NET - or perhaps you've even managed VC++. The .NET Framework allows all kinds of different languages to utilize code written in various other languages and by other vendors. But there's...   Read Article.

Are you aware that you might be shipping your source code with your .NET dll or exe? A new tool included in Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET 2003 can help you make sure that does not happen....   Read Article.

In today's computing environment, creating applications that transfer data between devices on networks has become a necessity for programmers. Fortunately, Microsoft has included several classes in the .NET Framework that make network programming easy. The TcpClient, TcpListener, and NetworkStream classes are popular classes that provide all the functionality...   Read Article.

As the popularity of Web services increases, the security of Web service transactions is becoming a major concern. With a plethora of standards bodies and organizations working on different security standards and technologies for faster adoption of Web services, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Web services publishers and designers to choose...   Read Article.

Security must be established from the moment application coding begins ­ for the simple reason that the cost of fixing a security flaw grows astronomically as the application evolves....   Read Article.

One of the most serious flaws of COM and API-based software development is that once you allow a component to run on your system, it has unrestricted permission to do anything. That's why viruses are such a problem - once they are on your system, there is little to protect you from their actions....   Read Article.

Industry analysts have estimated that over 70% of today's security breaches occur at the application level. Many are due to the exploitation of security defects within the code....   Read Article.

In the first article in this series, 'Accessing Enterprise Data from SQL Server CE' [.NETDJ, Vol. 1, issue 6], we constructed a solution that allowed us to provide enterprise data access to mobile devices while in a disconnected environment using Visual Studio .NET 2003, the .NET Compact Framework, and SQL Server CE 2.0. Providing mobile...   Read Article.

It's a constant battle! Just when you think you understand security, someone or something reminds you of a whole aspect that you have been ignoring, usually at your peril. No matter how much you planned, prepared, worked, and worried about your plan of attack or defensive position, the job was literally never done!...   Read Article.

Last month (.NETDJ, Vol. 1, issue 12) we demonstrated a simple technique that allows you to avoid storing passwords in clear text, making your .NET applications more secure and safer should they somehow be compromised. In this article, we want to step back a bit and look at the big picture: application security from end to end....   Read Article.

Use of XML has become more and more popular over the past few years. Security is a big concern since the content of an XML file is in plain text and the information is in a human-readable form. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has developed standards to meet the security requirements of an XML file conforming to common XML paradigms....   Read Article.

BizTalk Server 2004 promises to be an invaluable tool for delivering on the promise of service-oriented architectures (SOAs): the agile enterprise, able to respond quickly to ever-changing business requirements. BizTalk is an enterprise application integration product whose reliance on XSD and XML means it is a natural integration tool for an SOA built...   Read Article.

Microsoft yesterday warned customers who use Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 or Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 about a vulnerability that could allow Internet content spoofing...   Read Article.

How can you take advantage of the new security features of ASP.NET 2.0, and how can you extend them for the specific needs of your Web applications?...   Read Article.