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Plan Your Defense Strategy

Concentrate on awareness, process, readiness, and privacy as you put your security plan into action.

Crosscutting Your Web Service Security

Learn to build a robust, flexible, and secure Web services architecture that leverages the .NET Framework's existing capabilities and handles security as a crosscutting concern.

One Size Rarely Fits All

Picking editorial for VSM can generate controversy.

Manage Patches and Updates

Round out your new or updated security strategy by establishing a process to evaluate, manage, and deploy patches in your network. Here are some guidelines and tool recommendations.

Parse Text Files With Regular Expressions

Learn to parse fixed-length files and delimited text files, detect when a key combination is pressed, and change the style of the Web control that has the input focus.

Sort in .NET

Sorting provides users with logical views of information. Learn how to implement and customize the sorting features your collections provide.

Artix Cures Integration Headaches

Learn about the advantages of IONA's highly extensible Artix product and how it helps companies use ESBs to integrate new technology without scrapping valuable existing systems.

Can XP SP2 Protect Your Users?

Modify your applications so they run smoothly with Windows XP SP2, and better understand the issues that are motivating these changes in the OS.

Related Articles From FTP

Read these related articles from the FTPOnline archives to get some additional background on SOA.

The Smart Client's Revenge

Clients might insist on a Web interface, but a smart client's benefits can often outweigh those of an ASP.NET-based app.

Providing Added Security -- at a Price

Patrick on the new XP patch.

VSM Ballyhoos Boondoggles

A reader claims .NET is one of Microsoft's biggest wastes, as made evident by the fact that a new version is released often in an attempt to make it more palatable to VB6 developers.

Build Printable ASP.NET Pages

Provide printing capabilities in your ASP.NET apps using server-side controls and JavaScript automation, or by using VS.NET add-in tools such as Crystal Reports.

Product Listings

Check out the latest add-ins for Visual Studio .NET, including one that lets you add mapping functionality to your apps.

Part-Time Programming Doesn't Equal Mediocrity

The stereotype that hobbyists perform mediocre work is damaging. Value comes in delivering solutions in a timely manner, regardless of the tools, steps, or people used to achieve it.

Master VS.NET's Dynamic Properties

Set up applications to configure at run time using the VS.NET Dynamic Properties functionality-and even add some tricks the .NET Framework doesn't support yet.

Build Your Own App Settings Class

Learn how to create your own application settings class by leveraging the FileInfo, HashTable, XMLReader, and XMLWriter classes.

Are You a .NET Hero?

Profiling those who show the power of .NET.

Build a Better UI

Use the OwnerDraw capabilities of the Microsoft Windows GDI+ to add gradient colors to controls and ListBox items, add rounded edges to controls, and manage the size and color of ListBox items.

Trusty Plan Not So Trustworthy

One reader sees fatal flaws in the logic presented in June's Guest Opinion, and fears less discerning readers will run out and start implementing SOA using the untrustworthy plan.

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