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23 december 2007
Back to .NET remoting: TypeFilterLevel
A couple of days ago I got mail from a reader of an old .NET remoting article of mine, where I built a sample chat application using the precursor technology of WCF. The article was pretty old, and the sample code written in .NET 1.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2002 . The code would not work under .NET Framework... Read More...
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17 februari 2007
Hosting the LoginService in .NET 3.5
The January 2007 CTP version of Visual Studio "Orcas" has .NET FX 3.5 version 3.5.11209. One of the assemblies is System.Web.Extensions and hosts some great new additions to the ASP.NET stack. It has new classes in the namespace System.Web.Security, two of which are LoginService and RolesService. In... Read More...
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30 december 2006
The need for Trusted Root Certificate Authorities
A web server will send the public key of its server certificate to set up a SSL connection with the client. The client checks whether the certificate is still a valid in this point in time the name of the server matches the one in the certificate the certificate has been issued by an authority it trusts... Read More...
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29 december 2006
Request and install a client certificate on the browsing computer
Browsers will need to have client certificates installed before any web server can receive them for authentication and authorization. Certificate Services can issue these certificates manually by a user, administrator or even programmatically. Let's assume that your users need to acquire a certificate... Read More...
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23 december 2006
Configure IIS for client certificates
Now that the web server is prepared with a server certificate you can continue with client certificates. By default IIS will ignore client certificates. You need to change some settings. Go to the properties of the particular web application in Internet Services Manager: There should be an active Edit... Read More...
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22 december 2006
Using client certificates to authenticate web browsers
ASP and ASP.NET have a pretty easy mechanism to work with client certificates that a browser has handed to the web server. All it takes is this little piece of code: Response.Write(Request.ClientCertificate[ "Issuer" ]); plus or minus the square brackets and semi-colon. This will read and print the value... Read More...
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23 augustus 2006
Custom security trimming in ASP.NET sitemaps
In ASP.NET you can create a sitemap to capture the pages that are available in your web application. The web.sitemap is an XML file that is a hierarchical list that is provided for data binding to controls via a sitemap provider. The Menu, SiteMapPath and TreeView control are common controls used for... Read More...
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12 maart 2006
Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and ASP.NET 2.0 combine forces
When I was writing up the Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) demo for Astrid Hackenberg I found out something nice. (For a primer on XSS, check a previous post ). I noticed that it was not possible to steal the cookie using JavaScript. That could mean only one thing: HttpOnly cookies. I did not post anything... Read More...
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09 maart 2006
Collaboration between Client Callbacks and Event Validation
Unfortunately I was not able to cover all details on client callbacks and event validation during my talk at the Developer Days. I did find out some interesting things on the combination. Let me tell you about it. When a callback is made from a ASP.NET 2.0 web page or control that supports Client Callbacks... Read More...
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13 december 2005
Event validation of controls in ASP.NET 2.0
This is the second part in a post on EventValidation in ASP.NET 2.0. In this post I will address the topic of event validation. This new feature becomes apparent when trying to use client callbacks in combination with new values for controls. If you are unfamiliar with the topic of client callbacks and... Read More...
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