Lessons learned during cross-site scripting security scan…

Converters in WPF are quite possibly the most useful tool that I’ve used in the relatively short time I’ve spent developing WPF applications.  They give the ability to format data, style controls, and more, based on the value supplied from a binding.  And it doesn’t even have to be a binding to a data source.  [...]

When you build ASP.NET MVC applications that require Forms-based or Windows authentication (e.g. login.aspx) and ASP.NET Session State, you need to make sure you properly handle redirecting the application to the appropriate login page when the users session has expired. This becomes more of a challenge when you start building layers of the application using [...]

In web application development, we should always think about returning some kind of message to users when an exception is raised in the program.  Sometimes, it can be very specific, while in other cases it can be generic.  A common thought is to capture and possibly handle exceptions where they are raised, re-throw exceptions or [...]

You may have experienced the problem with FileUpload control in an UpdatePanel – when you hit the submit button, Request.Files.Count always returns 0, even though you had registered the submit button as a PostBackControl and a PostBackTrigger of the UpdatePanel containing the FileUpload control.
In my case, the FileUpload only works when it is visible when [...]

Microsoft is expected to remove the CTP from their Azure Platform this month at PDC in Los Angeles. Until then, you can still receive access to their free cloud services platform. To get started with Azure you need a Windows Live ID and signup with Microsoft Connect to receive an access code (aka tokens).

When you [...]