This is a common claim, and completely preposterous. Even if you could decompile to the absolute original source, including comments, local variable names etc, that wouldn't make the application Open Source Software. The Open Source movement is about software licences - what you have the legal right to do. If ...

Authorization is the process of determining the accessibility to a resource for a previously authenticated user. Note that authorization can only work on authenticated users, hence ensuring that no un-authenticated user can access the application. The syntax for specifying authorization in ASP.NET is as follows. <authorization> < [ allow | deny ...

According to MSDN, "When using impersonation, ASP.NET applications can optionally execute with the identity of the client on whose behalf they are operating. The usual reason for doing this is to avoid dealing with authentication and authorization issues in the ASP.NET application code. Instead, you rely on Microsoft Internet Information ...

Passport authentication is a centralized authentication service that uses Microsoft's Passport Service to authenticate the users of an application. It allows the users to create a single sign-in name and password to access any site that has implemented the Passport single sign-in (SSI) service. The following code snippet illustrates how ...

Windows Authentication is used to validate a user based on the user’s Windows Account; however, this is only applicable in intranet environments where the administrator has full control over the users in the network. The following code snippet illustrates how we can implement Windows Authentication in ASP.NET. <authentication mode="Windows"/> <authorization> <allow users ...

A client generates a request for a protected resource. IIS receives the request, and if the requestor is authenticated by IIS, or if IIS Anonymous Access is enabled, the request gets passed on to the ASP.NET application. Because the authentication mode in the ASP.NET application is set to forms, IIS authentication ...

The ASP.NET security framework accomplishes this by working in conjunction with the various security subsystems present in the machine where ASP.NET is installed. This includes security provided by the operating system ( NTFS file access permissions ) as well as security provided by IIS ( host or IP address authorization ...

Time for a short commercial break: O’Reilly has just announced the Rough Cuts version of Programming ASP.NET AJAX, the second edition of Programming Atlas. I am currently revising the Atlas book for the final ASP.NET AJAX release; the Rough Cuts version gives you the opportunity to ...