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Threat Modeling

he process of securing applications begins with understanding the threats against your applications. Portions of this article are excerpted from Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition, available from Microsoft Press. A

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Threading Support in the .NET Framework

he .NET Framework introduces advanced free threading as a fundamental building block. The Framework offers solutions even for advanced issues, enabling developers to build truly thread-safe applications in a relatively

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Ask the Doc Detective: Visual Studio .NET Help

nless you are clairvoyant, finding what you need in the Visual Studio .NET documentation can sometimes be a daunting task. The Doc Detective is here to help, gazing into his

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Author Advanced .NET Applications in Perl

n part 1 of this series you learned how PERL has been incorporated into the Visual Studio .NET family. This article explores its membership in more detail. PERL and its

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Boundless Array Indexing

Use this function for getting the 10th next element from an array with “circular” contents such as “Monday,” “Tuesday,” and so on: intCurrent = WrapIndex(Index:=intCurrent, _ Move:=+10, UpperBound:=6) You don

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Open a ToolBar Dropdown Menu

VB6 introduced a new Style=5-tbrDropDown of the Button object for the ToolBar control. In this case, you can add one or more ButtonMenu objects to the current Button. Unfortunately, you

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Applying Different Stylesheets Across Various Browsers

function IsIE(){ var str=newString(Request.ServerVariables(“HTTP_USER_AGENT”)).toUpperCase(); return (str.indexOf(“MSIE”)>-1)?true:false;}if(IsIE()==false){ Response.Write (“”); } else{ Response.Write (“”); } Related Posts IDC Predicts Slower Growth for SmartphonesFind Out the Column Name Using the COL_NAME() FunctionGet All

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Replicate Character Patterns

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Avoid Zero-length String Parameter Failures

Have you ever had a zero-length string parameter fail when attempting to execute a stored procedure from ADO? You Related Posts Validating Dynamic ArraysMastering VC pitching at TechCrunch 2024VMware Adds

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Dynamic Copyright Date

This little bit of code keeps webmasters from having to update copyright dates at the beginning of every year. Put it in the body of your HTML. Don’t forget to

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Stuffing a Javascript Value into a VBScript Variable

Detect the client’s screen resolution using Javascript and then stuff it into an ASP variable! Related Posts eeGeo Launches Global 3D Mapping Platform to Visualise Location-Based Services and InteriorsHow AI

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Words from the Publisher: Who Do You Trust?

y hometown in rural Alabama was a place where the level of trust was extremely high. I cannot remember a time during my childhood when the door to our house

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Looking Forward and Back

ell, the end of 2002 is at hand and what a year it has been. From an economic standpoint this year has been a tough one. From a technology standpoint

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Microsoft Exception Management Application Blocks

xceptions need to be handled in all applications. Having a consistent method of dealing with exceptions will make your application easier to debug. Recording exceptions into an SQL database or

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The Autocomplete TextBox control

The Autocomplete TextBox is a freeware textbox control developed by Neo Components that acts like the ones you find in the latest browsers. Automatically builds a list of entries, saves

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AsciiEncode – Convert a string to its ASCII representation

‘ Convert a string to its ASCII representation’ Example: Response.Write(AsciiEncode(“hello”))’ ==> hello” Note: this may be useful when you’re producing the code for HTML forms with ‘ hidden/visible field, and

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Avoid the Loss of CSS Style in Netscape V4.x

Sometimes it is very helpful to use a JavaScript feature that supports adding properties to build-in prototype “Objects” at runtime. It is generally known that Netscape 4.x has problems in

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Ensuring All Non-NULL Values Are Unique

Say you have a column in a SQL Server table that allows NULL values. You want this column to be unique when it has a value other than NULL. What’s

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Book Excerpt: Oracle9i The Complete Reference

hapter 21: Using SQL*Loader to?Load DataIn the scripts provided in Appendix A, a large number of insert commands are executed. In place of those inserts, you could create a file

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Specify the Order By Clause in a View

SQL Server does not allow you to include the Order By clause in a view.To do this, consider using the following workaround: USE pubsGOCREATE VIEW AuthorsByNameASSELECT TOP 100 PERCENT *FROM

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The Ten Developer Commandments of BREW

QUALCOMM’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) is a platform that is ideally suited to creating powerful applications on memory/footprint-constrained devices. One of the ways BREW is able to do

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Using Quotation Marks in SQL Server

The standard delimiters for literal strings in SQL are single quotation marks (‘). By default, SQL Server reserves double quotation marks (“) as delimiters for database objects.The SQL Server ODBC

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Avoid NullPointerException Comparing Strings

The standard way to compare a variable String to a constant is to use this syntax: if(myString.equals(“test”)){ doSomething();} However, if myString is null, a NullPointerException will be thrown. Instead, use:

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Securing Your SQL Server

lanning for database security means a number of things. First, you need to take care that the code you send to SQL Server is not vulnerable to SQL injection. Second,