I have been silent for the last month or so, but I am hoping to get back into writing again. July was an eventful month for me. I turned 38 (July 10), took a family vacation (first time to be able to do so in at least 6 years!) driving across much of the USA in an RV, and I ended a contract early because...

I have been silent for the last month or so, but I am hoping to get back into writing again. July was an eventful month for me. I turned 38 (July 10), took a family vacation (first time to be able to do so in at least 6 years!) driving across much of the USA in an RV, and I ended a contract early because...

Problem You are building an Intranet expense report application for your organization, and want to enable role-based authentication and authorization capabilities within it. Specifically, you want to create logical roles called “approvers”, “auditors”, and “administrators”...

Problem You are building an Intranet expense report application for your organization, and want to enable role-based authentication and authorization capabilities within it. Specifically, you want to create logical roles called “approvers”, “auditors”, and “administrators”...

Problem You are building an Intranet expense report application for your organization, and want to enable role-based authentication and authorization capabilities within it. Specifically, you want to create logical roles called “approvers”, “auditors”, and “administrators”...

I'm browsing through Microsoft's best practices guide for security in ASP.NET 2.0 and have encountered some eyeopeners. The authors warn against relying on some of the built-in features of ASP.NET. For example, the ASP.NET 2.0 Internet Security Reference Implementation uses custom functions to...

Peter Kellner recently published parts 3 and 4 of his popular how-to series on building a custom remote security management application for ASP.NET 2.0's Membership and Roles feature. Part 3 covers Ajax enabling it with Atlas, and Part 4 covers adding personalization support with profiles. You can...

Peter Kellner recently published parts 3 and 4 of his popular how-to series on building a custom remote security management application for ASP.NET 2.0's Membership and Roles feature. Part 3 covers Ajax enabling it with Atlas, and Part 4 covers adding personalization support with profiles. You can...

Peter Kellner recently published parts 3 and 4 of his popular how-to series on building a custom remote security management application for ASP.NET 2.0's Membership and Roles feature. Part 3 covers Ajax enabling it with Atlas, and Part 4 covers adding personalization support with profiles. You can...

Problem: You are building an Intranet web application for your organization, and you want to authenticate the users visiting your site. Specifically, you want to ensure that they are logged in using a valid Windows account on the network, and you want to be able to retrieve each incoming user's Windows...