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 ...

Just a quick note: Microsoft has just released Beta 1 of the next Visual Studio code-named “Orcas” (Team System and Professional Edition and TFS) for MSDN subscribers. A public download for everyone, however, are the “Orcas” Express Editions. The website labels them as Community Technology Previews ...

Just saw that Microsoft unveilled the official name of the technology formerly known as WPF/E: Silverlight. All related downloads like the browser plugins, the SDK and the samples have been renamed accordingly. Strange, I would have expected such at announcement at MiX, but I guess there ...

Atlas supported page methods: A functionality to embed web service methods into .aspx pages and consume them with JavaScript. For instance, if you had the following method: [WebMethod] string sayHello() { return “Hello”; } —you could consume this method from JavaScript using the PageMethods.sayHello() call. With ASP.NET AJAX, this has changed a ...

Since ASP.NET AJAX has been published last week, it was time to compile information regarding Programming Atlas. On the book page, you now find a document describing changes made in the Atlas to ASP.NET AJAX migration that affect the book. In the meanwhile, I am already ...

Two things I noticed while upgrading a couple of machines with Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer Express Edition with Service Pack 1 (available for Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, and the Express Editions): Upgrading Visual Web Developer Express Edition to SP1 somehow resets the registration ...

I have always had my beef with the client controls Atlas introduced. I am using JavaScript since approximately ten years now, so I know my way around DOM fairly well. So why add another layer in between? Of course there are scenarios where that makes sense, ...