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Web Services Ad Hoc Firewalls
The Forum XWall firewall plug-in for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 secures Web services by letting you intercept bad SOAP calls, set user permissions on methods, and more.
Standard-Savvy WSE 2.0
The WS-* specs are helping standardize web services development, and .NET's Web Services Enhancements 2.0 supports two of the most mature WS-* standards: WS-Security and WS-Policy.
Don't Like the URL? Change It
Dynamic URL generation is handy for redirections. Here are some tips for best practices when using the RewritePath method
Textbox AutoEncoding Improves Security
The standard TextBox control does not verify input text by default, and this creates a security hole that a cross-site scripting attack can exploit. Here's a custom TextBox control that will "autoencode" text input
ADO.NET Connection Pooling
Connection pooling is a fundamental aspect of high-performance, scalable applications - .NET
Comparing List and Iterative Controls
List Controls such as DropDownList can access your data, but iterative controls, like DataGrid, Repeater, and DataList, let you modify the display of your data on the fly.
DataSet and the Session Object
Using out-of-process session state can make your ASP.NET app more robust, but the serialization involved can get costly, in both in performance bottlenecks and data-type conversion bloat
Lightweight Collections from Web Service Methods
The DataSet object's rich feature set makes it a popular data type in pure .NET projects, but if your web service needs to be truly interoperable, avoid DataSets and rely on a collection instead
Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET
Dino Esposito takes a look at ADO.NET XML data serialization in this sample chapter from his book, Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET. the book describes the set of XML core classes in .NET; introduces the .NET XML parsing model; discusses XML readers and writers and XMLDOM; and examines technologies such as schemas, transformations, and XPath.
Customizing the Authentication Cookie
You can use the authentication cookie to store encrypted and validated custom data such as a description of the users' role in your ASP.NET applications
