Introduction This is going to be a multi-part series of articles with the end goal of producing a solution which handles security/identity claims across domain boundaries using WCF services and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (with a federation trust) and Active Directory. In order to demonstrate an approach to handling […]
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Hi All. I’m debating a new article. I’m currently debating whether to spend some time documenting an interesting solution to a fairly esoteric scenario. I’m not sure if it is worth the investment (in my time), so I’m going to throw it open to the community. Give me feedback – […]
We love it when a good patch comes around – so here is a cumulative patch for the .NET Framework 4.0. There is a fairly long and extensive list of changes included in the GDR, here is a list of fixes and new features which have been added (from the […]
In case you hadn’t already heard, Microsoft have released a comprehensive set of new web development features and tools designed to enhance rapid web application development in the form of Web Matrix. Today’s article will focus on Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Express, which is a “light” version of Microsoft’s […]
So this is a pretty short (but hopefully useful) post to show you how to add to a list of “trusted servers” much alike Internet Explorer’s trusted sites options. In short, adding the address of servers allows the browser to “pass through” your user’s credentials when it tries to resolve […]
Introduction Now if you are like me, you’ve probably had some interest in POCO (plain old CLR objects) objects for at least some time. They are an invaluable tool in the distributed systems and service oriented architecture areas, but up until now they’ve been inaccessible for those designs. In a […]
There’s going to be more to this in coming posts, but I thought I’d add all the articles I’ve been reading ahead of schedule. The long and short of the story is this – I’ve managed to implement round trip CRUD operations using POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) using a […]
This is part of a series of entries written about Microsoft’s new SQL Azure database service and the Entity Framework v4. Following on from my previous posts (check them out before continuing) – this article assumes you have followed steps outlined in the previous posts to create various models and […]
Undoubtedly, anyone who has evaluated LINQ to SQL has fond it a fairly powerful yet lightweight ORM technology which is less complex than the ADO Entity Framework yet utilizes the strength and power of Language Integrated Queries. One problem with LINQ to SQL is the auto paging feature of the […]
Here are some lessons learned from using the Entity Framework and the EntityDataSource provider in ASP.net development. Edit: Hi Everyone, I’ve been getting some traffic on this topic and I realise I’ve only written half the details (there is more to come). Please bare with me and I’ll aim to […]
We all by now have probably heard about the increase in SQL injection attacks to popular (and unpopular) web sites. A SQL Injection attack is where an external party passes potentially harmful or exploitive data in the form of raw, formatted or encoded T-SQL in a way in which it […]
Hiya, all. Some new content for you. Phil Beadle (of DNN and Readify fame) yesterday introduced me to a video clip demonstrating how this thing is used and I must say, I’m a big fan. Note: I’m not a huge fan of WYSIWYG or drag and drop, but this […]