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 [...]

The Business Intelligence Showcase demonstrates our expertise with Microsoft’s business intelligence application suite. These technologies include the SQL Server database, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. Recently added to the stack was the .Net chart control, a very powerful component that greatly improves productivity for producing visually appealing charts and diagrams on web sites and Windows [...]

I am pretty sure I caught the Mebroot root kit last night, or some variant, and potentially some other things, too.
I was working when all of a sudden the machine rebooted, without a blue screen. It did an orderly shut-down and reboot (XP Pro SP III). I did not allow XP to boot back up, [...]

Those looking for ways to render application data and content into Microsoft Office documents used to have a limited number of options. There once was something called Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft ended support in 2007) or, more recently, Visual Studio Tools for Applications (see Wikipedia). OLE Automation has been around since the early days of [...]

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The problem: a blog post is supposed to show a temperature chart. The chart is served by a remote server, running SQL Reporting Services. The table with the temperature data contains 100,000s of rows and the server that hosts the SQL database and Reporting Services is an older Athlon box. Serving that image can take [...]

Fernand Point, by some considered the “father of modern French cuisine”, writes in his book “Ma Gastronomie”:
Perfection is a lot of little things done well.
This is certainly true in regard to cooking. It is rare, albeit possible, that on little thing that’s missing or was not done right ruins the dish. More [...]

The outsourcing and offshoring trends of the early 2000’s were an indication that executives increasingly thought of software development as a commodity, i.e. something that is purchased in large quantities at a certain price per unit (e.g. $/hour) and the less the company has to pay per unit, the greater the savings will be.
It turns [...]