hat you are involved in at Microsoft and what changes have been made in the security arena? Steve Lipner: The Secure Windows Initiative (SWI) was created in early 2000, right
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,