This guide presents a practical, scenario driven approach to designing and building secure ASP.NET applications for Windows 2000 and version 1.0 of the .NET Framework. It focuses on the key elements of authentication, authorization and secure communication within and across the tiers of distributed .NET Web applications.

This article provides one solution for replicating content to multiple share locations using VB.Net. This could be useful where you have a Web application hosted on a Web farm and you wish to have files uploaded via the Web, and then replicate the uploaded files to other servers in the farm.

In this article we will take a quick look at two methods for creating SHA1 passwords for use on the web using .NET. It is dangerous to store passwords anywhere in plain text!! SHA1 gives a quick and easy way to encode a password into a non-human readable form. This means it is safer to store in a database, and should the database be viewed by anyone who shouldn't know the passwords, it will be much more difficult for them to work out what a user's password is.

This article discusses different options you as a developer have in ASP.NET to send data from one ASP.NET page to another. Since you cannot use ASP.NET Web Controls (System.Web.UI.WebControls) in such a scenario (which only allow posting back of data to the same page), this article discusses other ways like using HttpContext object.

A comprehensive tutorial on viewing, adding, editing and removing records from MySQL database using ASP.NET DataGrid control. Provides thorough coverage of ADO.NET data access techniques and user data input validation using ASP.NET validation controls.

The CLR provides a security model which is layered on top of that provided by the underlying operating system. It acts as another "hurdle" one must cross in order to access various resources and services.

This session will give you the opportunity to learn the basics of building mobile web applications with ASP.NET Mobile Controls. See how the control model and drag and drop designer make it easy to target nearly 200 devices (cell phones, PDAs and pagers) from a single mobile web form. Find out what the adaptive rendering and rich customization and extensibility models can do for your mobile web applications.

This step-by-step tutorial makes use of over 20 images to describe every step in detail from obtaining, installing, configuring and running MySQL on Windows to insalling/uninstalling MySQL as a Windows service, creating a new table, populating it with some records and displaying those records in an ASP.NET page. Also explains the advantages of using MySQL on Windows with ASP.NET. All the code is available for download.

ASP.NET is built on a core set of classes and interfaces that abstract the HTTP protocol. The three core abstractions are the context (HttpContext) that represents the current HTTP request, handlers (classes that implement IHttpHandler) that are capable of servicing HTTP requests, and modules (classes that implement IHttpModule) that can pre/post process HTTP requests to provide additional services.

ASP.NET is a managed framework that facilitates building server-side applications based on HTTP, HTML, XML and SOAP. To .NET developers, ASP.NET is a platform that provides one-stop shopping for all application development that requires the processing of HTTP requests.