How to Connect SQL Server and Create C# Objects for Data Management
Learn about how you can work with your SQL Server data from C#. A good basic tutorial for beginning C# developers.
2023-03-24
11,799 reads
ASP.NET
ASP.NET Core with GitOps: Deploying Infrastructure as Code
Automation of server builds minimizes human error, ensures that environments are identical, and saves time building servers. This article from Mircea Opera demonstrates provisioning one server or multiple load-balanced servers in AWS with code.
2019-12-26
Multi-Step Input Forms in ASP.NET MVC
It is a common problem with a web page that a form is too complex to fit easily on the page. You can, of course, rely on the scrollbar, but it soon becomes a daunting and erratic process for the poor user. Wizards, that allow you to guide the user through a process, are great but take time to set up. Is there a simple solution for those occasions where there is too much data-entry for a form but a full wizard seems like overkill?
2016-11-11
3,292 reads
Crossing the Site Domain with JavaScript
Browsers try to prevent a range of malicious attacks by preventing content being accessed by a web page from a different domain to the one that the page was fetched from. If you have a legitimate need to do this, it is a bad idea to disable this method of defence: Instead, there are more legitimate and safer ways of performing cross-domain JavaScript calls such as JSONP or Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, as Dino explains.
2016-08-16
2,961 reads
The Plain Simple Password Page Not So Simple Anymore
The requirements for the management of passwords have become far more complex over the past few years in response to the increasing sophistication of security breaches. Nowadays, you need to provide a range of features such as hashing, routine change of passwords, preventiion of repeat passwords, email confirmation, auto-generation of random passwords and password quality checks. Dino Esposito explains.
2016-06-27
3,535 reads
ASP.NET Core: A More Realistic Starter Kit
ASP.NET Core is a fascinating platform with many good ideas, but in its present form (RC1)there is a culture shock for experienced ASP.NET developers to experience the effort involved in porting a realistic application. There is an obvious advantage on being able to host an application on any web server, but is this enough to compensate for losing the convenience of an integrated pipeline?
2016-05-05
3,586 reads
SCOME - Part 3: The Failed Jobs Report
Monitoring your servers centrally requires a good reporting system. Drew Salem continues with his SCOME journey to tame servers with the building of a job report in this article.
2009-04-24
7,476 reads
SCOME - Setting Up Your Remote Servers - Part 2
Continuing with his series on how to centrally monitor your SQL Servers, Drew Salem looks at how to set up remote servers.
2009-04-22
6,300 reads
SCOME - Centralize Monitoring with ASP.NET - Part 1
New author Drew Salem brings us a series on how to centrally monitor your SQL Servers. He includes ASP.NET code and a framework that will check your servers and display a report for you. This article presents an overview of the dealing with the SCOME issue.
2009-04-20
10,091 reads
Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET 2.0: Handling Database NULL Values
Dealing with NULL database values in ASP.NET.
2007-11-30
2,302 reads
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The Backup File Extension
I run this command in SQL Server 2022. What is the extension of the backup file?
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