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Reduce the weight of stylesheets by 35% at runtime

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:01:01 GMT

It is always desirable to produce the smallest amount of client-code at any given time. That includes HTML, JavaScript and CSS files. The more client-code you produce, the longer it takes to download and render the web page. This shows how to reduce CSS files by 35% at runtime using C#.

SQL Prompt - Intellisense for SQL Server

Tue, 23 May 2006 14:05:01 GMT

Code completion and intellisense for SQL Server Query Analyzer free until September 1st 2006. No time bombs and no restrictions.

Passing Information Securely Between ASP and ASP.NET

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:40:57 GMT

ou can transfer information between systems using ASP.NET in multiple ways; however, many are cumbersome, complicated, or insecure. For example, many data transfer methods pass information in plain text, which makes the data vulnerable to both interception and misuse. This article centralizes the methods to interact with data used in both ASP and ASP.NET applications. You achieve this by using the same methods of encrypting and data-packaging in ASP.NET as in classic ASP-in other words, by calling .NET code via COM from classic ASP pages.

A CAPTCHA Control for ASP.NET 2.0

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:41:00 GMT

CAPTCHA is short for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart" and is the most popular technique used to prevent computer programs from sending request to Web servers. This can be for meta-searching search engines, doing dictionary attacks in login pages or sending spam using mail servers. You may see CAPTCHA images in Google register page when you do availability check on too many usernames or in Yahoo, PayPal and many other big Web sites.

Using the Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG/PGP) within ASP.NET

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:40:12 GMT

This article presents GnuPGWrapper v1.0, a wrapper class for GnuPG. GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC 2440. As such, GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy).

ASP.NET 2.0 RSS Toolkit

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:23:06 GMT

Microsoft's ASP.NET team has released an RSS toolkit so applications can send and receive RSS feeds.....