SQL Anywhere Integration with Visual Studio 2005
SQL Anywhere 10 contains a number of integration features with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (both 2003 and 2005). These features are designed to make it easier to work with a SQL Anywhere database while developing an application using Visual Studio. This whitepaper outlines the integration features that are present with Visual Studio 2005, and contains tutorials demonstrating how the integration features can be used to ease application development while working with a database.
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Java security, Part 1 Crypto basics
There is perhaps no software engineering topic of more timely importance than application security. Attacks are costly, whether the attack comes from inside or out, and some attacks can expose a software company to liability for damages. As computer (and especially Internet) technologies evolve, security attacks are becoming more sophisticated and frequent. Staying on top of the most up-to-date techniques and tools is one key to application security; the other is a solid foundation in proven technologies such as data encryption, authentication, and authorization.
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Master Pages - Examining the Markup Emitted by the ScriptManager Control
Over the past several years, more and more developers have been building AJAX-enabled web applications. An AJAX-enabled website uses a number of related web technologies to offer a more responsive user experience. Creating AJAX-enabled ASP.NET applications is amazingly easy thanks to Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX framework. ASP.NET AJAX is built into ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008; it is also available as a separate download for ASP.NET 2.0 applications.
When building AJAX-enabled web pages with the ASP.NET AJAX framework, you must add precisely one ScriptManager control to each and every page that uses the framework. As its name implies, the ScriptManager manages the client-side script used in AJAX-enabled web pages. At a minimum, the ScriptManager emits HTML that instructs the browser to download the JavaScript files that makeup the ASP.NET AJAX Client Library. It can also be used to register custom JavaScript files, script-enabled web services, and custom application service functionality.
If your site uses master pages (as it should), you do not necessarily need to add a ScriptManager control to every single content page; rather, you can add a ScriptManager control to the master page. This tutorial shows how to add the ScriptManager control to the master page. It also looks at how to use the ScriptManagerProxy control to register custom scripts and script services in a specific content page.
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Handling cookies in ASP .NET
How to create a cookie, how to get the value stored in a cookie, set the lifetime, path and domain for a cookie, edit a cookie, delete a cookie, remove subkeys Here’s a tutorial that shows you how to use cookies in ASP .NET. I’m not going to explain the role of cookies in web applications or cover any other theoretical aspect of cookies. There are many (similar) ways to handle cookies in ASP .NETshow you one of the ways, my way. Oh, and we’re going to use C#, although the code can be adapted to Visual Basic .NET easily.
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Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0 - Debugging Stored Procedures
Visual Studio provides a rich debugging experience. With a few keystrokes or clicks of the mouse, it’s possible to use breakpoints to stop execution of a program and examine its state and control flow. Along with debugging application code, Visual Studio offers support for debugging stored procedures from within SQL Server. Just like breakpoints can be set within the code of an ASP.NET codebehind class or Business Logic Layer class, so too can they be placed within stored procedures.
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