Take advantage of user secrets management in ASP.NET Core to prevent the sharing of sensitive application data in your projects When working with ASP.NET web applications, you will want to protect ...

Currently, reusing web forms and user controls in multiple ASP.NET projects requires copying the associated aspx and ascx pages. You can put web controls in separate assemblies, but you lose the ...

The implementation of master pages is a highly anticipated feature in ASP.NET 2.0. A master page is a template that you can use to define the overall look and feel of your ASP.NET Web applications. In ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from Dino Esposito's upcoming book, Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 [Microsoft Press, ISBN: 0735620245]. It has been edited for length and format to fit the ...

The most glaring difference between Web and stand-alone applications is the disconnected nature of the Web. That is, a Web application isn't constantly connected (to a database server, application ...