Top 10 Web Attacks

Injection Injection flaws, such as SQL, OS, and LDAP injection, occur when untrusted data is sent to an interpreter as part of a command or query. The attacker’s hostile data can trick the interpreter into executing unintended commands or accessing…

Parallel Processsing with Threads Introduction

C# supports parallel execution of code through multithreading. A thread is an independent execution path, able to run simultaneously with other threads. A C# client program (Console, WPF, or Windows Forms) starts in a single thread created automatically by the…

Browser Capabilities in ASP.Net 4.0

Changes to Browser Capabilities ASP.NET determines the capabilities of the browser that a user is using to browse your site by using a feature called browser capabilities. Browser capabilities are represented by the HttpBrowserCapabilities object (exposed by the Request.Browser property).…

What is new in ASP.Net 4.0 Part-3

Object Caching and Object Caching Extensibility Since its first release, ASP.NET has included a powerful in-memory object cache (System.Web.Caching.Cache). The cache implementation has been so popular that it has been used in non-Web applications. However, it is awkward for a…

What is new in ASP.Net 4.0 Part-2

Shrinking Session State ASP.NET provides two default options for storing session state across a Web farm: a session-state provider that invokes an out-of-process session-state server, and a session-state provider that stores data in a Microsoft SQL Server database. Because both…

What is new in ASP.Net 4.0

Web.config File Refactoring The Web.config file that contains the configuration for a Web application has grown considerably over the past few releases of the .NET Framework as new features have been added, such as Ajax, routing, and integration with IIS…

The Task-based Asynchronous Pattern

Naming, Parameters, and Return Types Initiation and completion of an asynchronous operation in the TAP are represented by a single method, and thus there is only one method to name. This is in contrast to the IAsyncResult pattern, or APM…