NET Security and Cryptography by Peter Thorsteinson and G. Gnana Arun Ganesh lays down the foundation for .NET security features and shows you how to use them properly.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 01/01/2004
Here are five things you can do right now— this minute—that will increase security on your networks.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 01/01/2004
Integrate Altova's new release of xmlspy 2004 into your existing Visual Studio .NET projects.
Chris Dias, group program manager for Visual Basic .NET at Microsoft, talks about the present and future of the language, including the target audience of this tool.
- By Patrick Meader
- 01/01/2004
First, adopt a method and then take inventory.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 01/01/2004
You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.
- By Bob Beauchemin
- 01/01/2004
You don't want to lock needless assemblies into the VS.NET process. Avoid this problem by loading the assembly into a separate application domain that you can unload later.
- By Enrico Sabbadin
- 01/01/2004
This requires managing expectations, data and the computing experience.
- By Mark Wingard
- 01/01/2004
Generics support in version 2 of the .NET Framework will help you write simpler, more powerful code, whether you consume generic classes built into the Framework or roll your own.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 01/01/2004
2003 saw lots of huge releases from Microsoft. While the coming year will be more subdued, you can be sure there’s still a lot on the way from Redmond.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/01/2004
The final chapter in this four-part series discusses a global manufacturing firm’s experiences in moving from NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003, an operation with 10,000 computers worldwide.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/11/2003
Part three of this four-part series describes a Canadian’s firm’s on-going, cautious efforts to evaluate the new platform for its truly mission-critical 24x7 environment.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/10/2003
Part Two of this four-part series profiles an organization with 30 television stations across the country and 2,000-plus employees.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/09/2003
Moving to a major new operating system is always daunting, but for these four companies, the switch to Microsoft’s latest OS was well worth it. In part 1 of this four-part series, a small ISP moved for the speed improvements as well as server consolidation.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/08/2003
Your company is not keen on you honing your IT skills on its WAN for good reason. Building a lab is the next best thing. Here's how.
UrlScan is an invaluable security tool for Web sites. Although IIS 6.0 incorporates some of its functionality, it’s still useful for IIS 6.0 sites—and critical for older versions of IIS.
- By Martin C. Brown
- 12/01/2003
You're the ultimate authority for keeping your network up and running. You've carefully chosen tools that help you most and products you can't live without. Here are your choices for 2003's best of the best.
Migrating servers, users and resources from Windows NT to Windows Server 2003 was a big challenge for our fictional hero. We review a number of third-party tools to help ease his pain.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 12/01/2003
Learn tips for handling patch management and hiding objects.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 12/01/2003
Gunther Lenz and Thomas Moeller give entry-level programmers an overview of the development model with a .NET influence in their book, .NET - A Complete Development Cycle.
- By Mark Collins-Cope
- 11/23/2003