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A guerrilla course on COM(+) security

Introduction Most developers hate to deal with securityissues; that’s why the security-design subject is, most of the time, left out from the “typical developer” MSDN surfing and the application prototypes

Self-aware Data Wrapper Objects with VB

f you’re one of the thousands of programmers out there writing server-side business components, then youve probably used data wrappers: light-weight objects designed to access streamed data. The following article

IDL For VB Tutorial

The Interface Definition Language, or IDL, is a language for describing collections of data types, constants, methods (functions, procedures, etc.), and groups of methods known as interfaces. This is not

MTS (and COM+) and global variables

Ever since you were a little kid youve known that you should be careful with global variables, right? In this article I will try to motivate you once again why

The 19th Common Programming Trap in MTS

have received a lot of feedback from my first two articles about common programming traps in MTS, which were published at VB-2-The-Max in December 1999. Perhaps there are a million

18 Common Programming Traps in MTS

icrosoft Transaction Server (MTS) is certainly not new, but there are still a lot of common design and programming errors being made. In this article I will show you 18