IIS Tutorials & Articles from Developer Fusion

Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 2: Controlling Localhost and IIS Express

Yann Trevin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:40:00 GMT

One important aspect of web testing which is not so often discussed in blogs or articles is how to run tests against a web project running in debug mode on the local host. Microsoft provides two options to let you debug web projects locally: the Visual Studio development server and IIS Express. In this second part of our series on writing web integration tests, we’re going to demonstrate how to use the WebTestServer class to start either server from within a running test suite.

Introduction to Windows Azure - What you should know

Neil Mackenzie — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:51:00 GMT

Neil Mackenzie looks at where Windows Azure fits among the various cloud computing offerings in the wild today, and also at the four key areas of Azure that new developers will need to be aware of when they start their first project.

Automate web application UI testing with Selenium

Sing Li — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:38:00 GMT

Testing web applications is a problem, but Sing Li thinks the solution might be easier than you think with Selenium.

Inside ASP.NET AJAX back end services

Dino Esposito — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Most of the emphasis with AJAX is on how to perform an asynchronous update at the client. Dino Esposito considers the other end of the connection – how exactly does the server provide the data that the client needs?

SQL Trusted Connections with ASP.NET

Barry Dorrans — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:05:00 GMT

Hard coding passwords into your application or your web site is a bad thing. Barry looks at how we can use trusted connections to provide the authentication we need, without the need for these potential security hazards.

Using SQL Server for ASP.NET session state

Barry Dorrans — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:57:00 GMT

Learn how you can use an alternative session storage method, using SQL Server - very useful if you're running sites across multiple servers, or need session state to persist across application restarts.

Top 10 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files - Part Two

Bryan Sullivan — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:43:00 GMT

In this second part of a two-part series, you will learn about application security issues related to authentication and authorization, as well as five vulnerabilities commonly found in ASP.NET web-based applications. Additionally, find out how to keep configuration files from being unintentionally modified by uninformed programmers or administrators, as well as why it is critical to never rely on default setting values.

Top 10 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files - Part One

Bryan Sullivan — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:05:00 GMT

In part one of this two part article, you will learn about five of the top ten “worst offenders” of misconfigurations of application security that can cause overall problems for ASP.NET Web-based applications. Learn more about how to secure the Web.config files of an ASP.NET application.

Testing for Security in the Age of Ajax Programming

Bryan Sullivan — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:24:00 GMT

Ajax programming, which allows a web page to refresh a small portion of its data from a web server, is an exciting technology that has recently been introduced. However, this type of programming can also leave applications open to SQL injection and similar attacks. Learn more about Ajax programming and what it means in terms of security.

Developing your first Visual WebGui gateway

Guy Peled — Tue, 16 May 2006 01:31:00 GMT

An introduction to using Visual WebGui gateways which are the Visual WebGui way to bridge WinForms development to web development.

SharePoint, Document Library and SQL Server

S.S. Ahmed — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:36:00 GMT

This tutorial shows how you can capture a document in SharePoint's document library, retrieve information from its properties and store in in SQL Server. It will teach you how to use Event Handler Toolkit.

High-Performance .NET Application Development & Architecture

Dimitrios Markatos — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:25:00 GMT

This article demonstrates the art of creating and architecting high-performance and scalable .NET applications, covering all stages, from planning to development and their perspective best practices.

Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents in .NET

Jonathan Hodgson — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:12:00 GMT

This article presents VB.NET code to create thumbnail images from a directory of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents using the .NET Framework.

How to access Outlook and post to a blog using C#

Simon Soanes — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:52:00 GMT

An article for all those like Robert Scoble who would like to be able to drag and drop an item to a folder in their Outlook and post it instantly to their Blog. We also briefly cover web services and talking to Outlook.

Mastering IIS FTP

Orcs Web — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:05:00 GMT

Scott Forsyth reveals some of the hidden but powerful features that exist with Microsoft's FTP server.

SQL Injection Attacks by Example

Stephen J. Friedl — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:57:00 GMT

Steve Friedl takes a look at how your site could be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks - complete with numerous examples - and the action you can take to prevent them.

Valid XHTML within .NET

Kevin Brown — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:27:00 GMT

At present none of Microsoft's ASP.NET controls intrinsically support the strict W3C XHTML standards. This can cause problems when using ASP.NET controls on pages that need to conform to one of the XHTML standards. In order to use Microsoft's supplied controls some modifications will be required. This series of articles intends to focus on the more widely used controls and the steps required to make them output valid code.

In Depth ASP.NET using ADO.NET

John Godel — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 09:09:00 GMT

In this article we will discuss a number of ways to retrieve, show, and update data with ASP.NET forms using ADO.NET. Also, we will have a clear idea about the most common server controls in ASP.NET. In particular, with this article we will cover ASP.NET server controls, ADO.NET DataSource, and creating Templated DataBound Controls, ASP.NET forms, using data with controls. John Godel

Managing banner ad clickthroughs

James Shaw — Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:10:00 GMT

When serving adverts, its important to only be recording click-thrus generated by real people, not just bots indexing your site! This article shows how to accurately measure click-thrus using a combination of IP addresses and User agent tags.

Web Forms DataGrid and DataSet Programming

Jeff Louie — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:39:00 GMT

This is a working C# .NET program that demonstrates how to integrate most of the features of the DataGrid and DataSet in a single project including select, insert, update, delete, confirm delete, sort, filter and page.