Development Ideas and Ramblings
Some aspects of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 remind me a little bit of the changes that happened to Access when it went from ver 2.0 to 95. For the uninitiated, Access was the absolute king of the hill for developers during a short period in the early 90’s. It was the only [...]
Bertrand LeRoy points out that AJAX is available in ASP.NET 2.0 and the way it was implemented it actually works better than some of the 3rd party approaches out there.
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Reflector Diff, a very nifty assembly diffing tool that uses Reflector is now .NET 2.0 compatible. Good deal Sean!
Scott Mitchell has a whole mess of examples on the usage of the GridView control posted on MSDN.
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I just saw this on Phil’s blog and wanted to make a note of it for posterity. Something to read when there is a little bit of time. Article here
MikeG has a quick review of the Constable Authorization Engine. I like the idea behind this product a lot. The only other tool on the market that is somewhat similar is Desaware’s State Coder.
Both products are much better realizations of the “Wizard Tool” that ships with ASP.NET 2.0.
Both tools use a state machine to allow [...]
Frederik has a small note about the much anticipated SQL Dependency Cache in ASP.NET 2.0 / SQL Server 2005
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Fred discusses the changes in Configuration Section Handlers in .NET 2.0.
“…In this post I will write something about the new section handler feature. I have written about the new way of creating section handler before. But this time I will focus on how to create a collection of adding child elements by using the ConfigurationElementCollection [...]
Dino Esposito published this on MSDN. It does contain some interesting points about the underlying structure of controls in 2.0
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Christop Wille mentions that “…In the article The 80/20 Rule for Web Application Security, there is one security solution proposed to protect sensitive cookies: adding the httpOnly flag. This attribute prevents cookies from being accessed through client-side script, thus mitigating the risk of cross-site scripting.”
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