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Storing Passwords - done right! [12,7 - 2.828]
In very many - not to say almost all - Web applications user data is administered, from Web forum to Web shop. These user data encompass login information of the users which contain the password besides the user name - and this in plain text. A security l
Creating a Single Sign-on for ASP.NET Application and Legacy ASP Application (Part II) [10,8 - 2.406]
A hack into the .NET authentication classes to extract a component that can be called by legacy asp applications to generate the same authentication token used in asp.net applications.
Creating a Single Sign-on across ASP.NET Application and Legacy ASP Application [10,8 - 2.393]
Encryption and hashing are used in this project to solve a common problem faced by many programmers, which is to create a single sign-on across multiple applications, which might be a mix of legacy ASP applications and ASP.NET applications.
Create a new folder using FSO [8,2 - 4.095]
This snippet is a good example of using the FileSystemObject. It creates a new folder on the fly using the form method. The code handles whether the folder exists and displays a message if exists or if the new gfolder was created.
FileSystemObject: CreateTextFile and OpenTextFile [5,3 - 2.728]
The two final methods of the FileSystemObject that we haven't yet examined is CreateTextFile and OpenTextFile. Understanding these two methods is important, as they are used to return a TextStream object, which in turn allows us to write to or read from
Authentication and Authorization [4,6 - 1.027]
ASP.NET works in conjunction with IIS to support authentication, using Basic, Digest, and Windows authentication. ASP.NET supports the Microsoft Passport authentication service, which provides single sign-on services and support for user profile services.
Telerik announces RadControls Q3 2007 [3,9 - 859]
Telerik, a leading vendor of UI components for .NET development, has announced the release of RadControls Q3 2007, which includes updates for all product lines for web and desktop presentation layer development.
ASP Guestbook [3,3 - 1.577]
This is an Access-based guestbook; DSN or DSN-less database connection. Zipfile includes scripts to display, enter and delete entries, plus readme file. Can be customized simply by changing html code.
Encrypting Connection Strings in web.config file [2,9 - 761]
ASP.NET stores all the configuration information in plain text files called web.config and machine.config files. We store all vital information including database connection strings, user names, passwords for the databases. Thus you end up storing all sen
