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Security Briefs
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For those who didn't attend PDC, the Zermatt identity framework has been re-code-named Geneva Framework so that it fits in with the Geneva family of products : Geneva Framework : a .NET class library called Microsoft.IdentityModel (basically it's...
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I have been a happy customer of Wells Fargo for a couple of years now, but one thing has always bothered me: being solicited by loosely affiliated companies. Well, I finally found out how to fix this. I called 888.528.8460, which is their "privacy...
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Chris Sells used to poke fun at me when we worked together in my former life . He used to call my security class, "Essential Access Denied". His point was a good one: when they aren't applied carefully, security countermeasures often just...
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I've been rather dark over the last couple of months as I helped to finish up Pluralsight's online training offering, Pluralsight On-Demand . I'm psyched that we finally shipped! Be sure to check it out soon (you can preview bits of each course...
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I've always looked at security questions used to automate user password recovery with quite a bit of skepticism . What's the point of requiring strong passwords if you allow anyone to reset the password on an account by answering a (potentially...
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I'm about to embark on a mission to get Zermatt integrated into pluralsight.com as our single-sign-on solution, and a big part of that is getting our Community Server installation wired into that. I'm curious if anyone else has seen any work being...
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We've worked with Kevin in our past lives at a previous training company, and we're glad to say that he's joined us as a Pluralsight instructor . Located in the United Kingdom, Kevin will be helping out in Europe as well as helping to round...
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Executive summary: ValidationSummary controls look at the ErrorMessage field to figure out what to display, so always use ErrorMessage in a verbose enough way that it will be helpful from a ValidationSummary control. If you need a shorter message to display...
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I just spent about 15 minutes debugging a problem where a document was getting unexpected nulls where empty strings should have been. Indeed controls like the TextBox have code in them that allows you to set the Text property to null and the TextBox will...
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( Updated 9 Oct 2008: replaced my custom MemoryStream.CopyUpToSeekPointer() extension method with MemoryStream.ToArray(), a built in method on MemoryStream that I overlooked and should have been using) It's surprising that XmlDocument isn't marked...
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Two way data binding in ASP.NET is easy, just use the Bind expression and data will flow between your web controls and your data source flawlessly. Until that is, you try to use a format string: Bind("AmountCharged", "{0:C}") While...
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We recently updated our website and some links have broken as a result. Here's the place you should go to get the latest version of Password Minder: http://mercury.pluralsight.com/tools.aspx Sorry for any inconvenience!
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This is the third post in a series. The first post described the problem: ASP.NET wasn't reporting inner exception stack traces. The second post described my solution. This post shows the code I used to solve the problem: a custom email provider for...
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Okay it's Saturday, so let me share something completely nontechnical and fun. What you need to make these cocktails: Six pack of Corona Extra Bottle of Bacardi Limon Lime Coctail stirrer (a chopstick works fine) Pop a slice of lime into a Corona...
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We recently switched our blog engine out, and I'm still getting the hang of the new system. Looks like due to a misconfiguration, several comments have been waiting for moderation for days or weeks. If yours was one of them, please accept my apology...
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