Issue: 2002 - November/December

  • November/December 2002 Editorial by Rod Paddock.
  • This article demonstrates the techniques for compiling dynamic code in your .NET applications.
  • The first step in securing your application is to understand threats. This article discusses how to understand where your application may be threatened.
  • David Stevenson interviews Steve Lipner, Microsoft's Director of Security Assurance; the article discusses how Microsoft is implementing security in their applications.
  • Sometimes an application needs to keep its data in its own secure "sandbox". This article demonstrates creating these isolated applications in .NET.
  • SQL Server, like most complex databases, has potential security holes. This article discusses these security holes and how to close them.
  • A new feature of .NET is its ability to handle exceptions. This article demonstrates implementing Microsoft's Exception Management Application Blocks.
  • This article explains in depth how to implement multi-threading in your .NET applications.
  • This second article in a series explores implementing data access and web services in PerlINET.
  • In this first article of a two-part series, Mike Snell demystifies .NET reflection by explaining how assemblies self-describe via metadata and showing practical techniques to load assemblies, inspect types and members, filter and search with BindingFlags or custom delegates, and instantiate and invoke discovered types and methods at runtime; he demonstrates these concepts with code (including a simple type browser) and positions reflection as a powerful albeit specialize...See More
  • In this installment, Doc Detective guides readers through the labyrinth of Visual Studio .NET and .NET documentation, answering real-time questions from developers and offering practical tips to accelerate discovery. Through a Q&A format, the column clarifies equivalents between VB6 and .NET (such as Shell vs ShellExecute), points to deployment and accessibility resources, and demonstrates how to tailor help views with custom filters. By demystifying documentation naviga...See More