Wednesday, August 07, 2002

You can create Mobile User Controls for Mobile Web applications and re-use the functionality encapsulated in the control multiple times in the application. This leads to ease of maintenance as you can focus your modifications/enhancement in the user control and the changes will be propagated to all the Pages where the control is used. 9:17:13 PM

Good News. As I just started a job a few months ago, the fact that I've tendered my resignation will be something of a surprise to my regular readers (all three of you :-D). Well, here's the first of three-) He's started a new company, and has asked me to take technical leadership of it by being CTO. I accepted the offer. [The .NET Guy] Brad, that is great! I'm sure you'll do great with your knowledge of many different technical areas. Congrats! 7:42:02 PM

Once upon a time in the tech world, obscurity was security – this being most true in the early years of the industry, when there were gaping holes in privacy policies and confidential client information was bandied about from site to site without a care as to who actually could read the information. With the new Cryptography classes in .NET, there’s absolutely no excuse for not hiding even the most innocuous user data. 9:07:35 AM

The System.DirectoryServices namespace gives users access to some rudimentary user administration via ASP.NET. This article first reviews what the Active Directory (AD) is, then looks briefly at the actual System.DirectoryServices namespace itself, and finally presents the code that allows us to add, edit, and delete users. 9:06:03 AM

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