There are generally three types of security in enterprise applications: 1. Role based security - Which actions can a user do - aka role-based access control 2. Entity level security - A user can only perform an Action on certain objects/data - aka row level security 3. Field level se...

I have mentioned Data Access Application Block in my previous posts and I thought it would be convenient to mention how to configure the Data Access Application Block in your project. Mr. Thiru Thangarathinam has written a very nice post about it in very detail hence I’ll just summarize it here. ...

In this post, we’ll see how the same tasks that we did using ADO.Net objects can be done using Data Access Application Block. We will also see how it makes the code much more tidier. Data Access Application Block is part of Microsoft Enterprise Library.

1) Go to Site Actions ; Site Settings ;Modify all site settings 2) Go to Galleries ; Master pages and page layouts 3) From the list toolbar, select Settings ; Document library settings 4) Select permissions for this document library 5) Add 'Restricted Read' access to the required groups

Over the years of software development, one thing that has eluded most developers is Data Access. Yes, I mean writing code that accesses a database from your application. It is an age old problem since the days when data storage and computing were invented. We would have thought that by now we would...