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Archives / 2006 / December
  • Configuring an ASP.NET 2.0 Application to Work with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005

    Configuring an ASP.NET 2 application to work with SQL Server is not an easy undertaking. You need to be aware of a number of security related concepts in the area of SQL Server, IIS and ASP.NET 2.0. The number of different options you have make the problem even more complex. In this article, I describe some of the common scenarios that you are likely to run into when working with SQL Server and ASP.NET pages. I'll be using SQL Server 2005 in all my examples, but most of the concepts also apply to SQL Server 2000. Note that most of the principles described in this article can also be used in ASP.NET 1.x applications.

  • WPF/E - Some questions

    I am all excited about WPF/E Community Preview release. I tried the different demos Michael Schwarz has listed, and it's looking really promising. I am more a Web developer than a Windows one, and it's amazing the number of things I can now iagine to do with WPF/E. Of course, like Flash, an advice would be probably to not transform everything in WPF/E but to keep it for some specific tasks.

  • Antivirus for Vista 64 bits

    Amazing that Vista don't come with a basic antivirus software. Well at least with third-parties you have a solution for the 32 bit version, but for the 64 bit one, it's quite a rare thing.

  • 64 bits resource center

    This could save a lot of time for people like me who installed Vista 64 bits version and have difficulties to find some native applications for their machines.

    I found Start64 after googling for an antivirus working on my 64 bit Athlon machine. Cool site and plenty of resources!

  • Vista the Good the Bad and the Ugly

    Microsoft is launching Vista officially tomorrow in Ireland and it happens that I finally upgraded my personal PC this Sunday. Well it was a big upgrade, hardware and software. I replaced my 3 years old main board by a brand new Gigabyte one with an Athlon 5000 64 bit.

  • Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library V1.5

    This download contains the redistributable files for the Microsoft Application Security Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library. The Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library can be used to provide a high degree of protection to Web-based applications against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.