Step-by-Step Guide to Integrating OpenAuth into Your ASP.NET Web Application
No matter what kind of Web application you build, the process always seems to start in the same place: managing user accounts. Writing a file-sharing application for the Web? You begin by identifying who is uploading the file. Writing a chat application for the Web? You have to know who will use the chat session, so you can give them access. Because the Web is inherently multi-user, any application you build is going to require managing a list of users.
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GDI+ Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005 Working with Images
Ever since Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) were invented, developers have been keen to use images to make their programs easier to use, and more attractive and intuitive to their users. Images brighten up an otherwise boring and clinical computer screen, and make the general computing experience more enjoyable. Visual support facilitates the information absorption and presentation of up-to-date information. Any user can more easily understand information just by looking at a picture. Images are the most intuitive memories because the human mind in most cases has a visual memory. This means that when you recall a memory it is frequently a visual one. Think briefly of a tree. What comes to your mind first? Is it the roughness of bark, the taste of fruit or nuts, the smell of tree, the rustle of leaves-or is it a picture of a tree?
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