Archive for September 2009

Forms Authentication – Custom Membership Provider Gotchas

Sep 17th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Software Engineering

Forms Authentication is a very useful feature of the Asp.net framework. Unfortunately, in its default configuration, the requirements for password length and strength, security question, and some of the other options are too strict for most low-end web applications and Intranets.
So, if you are new to this subject and try to find information on the [...]



Windows 7 – Tips & Tricks

Sep 8th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Information Technology

Renaming multiple files
In Windows 7 you no longer need to open a command shell or resort to 3rd party tools for renaming a list of files. Just highlight the files to rename, right-click, select Rename, rename one file, et voilà, Windows applies the new file name pattern to all selected files:
This was apparently already possible in [...]