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...

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.

In the previous post I promised to give the recipe of how to create the a simple Velocity cache manager provider using the Application Block Software Factory. In this post I’ll keep my promise.

Robert Scoble started a debate over the weekend when he wrote that enterprise software isn't sexy. I guess Scoble struck a nerve as his post caused a frenzy in the enterprise blogsphere, and on a Sunday...

If you work with data, then you need a way to connect to your data source and manipulate the information contained within. In .Net, as always, there are a number of ways to tackle this issue. This article provides an overview of the most common methods and links to further reading.

Read a book review of this title: "Distributed applications are tricky even for veteran architects and developers. They are complex, difficult to debug, and utilize multiple complex technologies. Enterprise Services is how .NET developers access COM+ Services in order to create distributed ente...

It’s been almost a year since I got involved into a big .Net enterprise project. We pushed the technology to it’s limits and found out that some popular tools were just not cut out for that job. However, I’ve also learned that if you dig deep enough, there are some very promising tools for .Net on t...

Write to an XML log file using the Enterprise Library, and transform the log file using XSLT for display in a web browser.