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Chain Of Responsibility Design Pattern – Focus On Security, Performance, And Operations: The pattern is also called Intercepting Filter, Pipeline, AOP, and may be few more… I am confused by the name for this design pattern. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius No matter how they call Read More...
Posted 14 January 08 03:50 by alikl | 1 Comments
Filed under Security, Implementation, Performance, Planning Phase
Basic HttpModule Sample (Plus Bonus Case Study - How HttpModule Saved Mission Critical Project's Life): This post to describe basic steps to write HttpModule and how it rescued mission critical application from not hitting the dead line. HttpModule is the mechanism that facilitates implementing cross cutting logic for incoming ASP.NET requests. ASP.NET Read More...
Posted 26 December 07 10:09 by alikl | 1 Comments
Filed under Security, Reflection, Development Phase, Implementation, Performance
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions: Basic Steps To Create Dynamic Data Web Application - Focus On Security and Performance: This post walks through the steps I've taken to create simple Dynamic Data Web Application. I just loved the development model for DTO [Data Transfer Object] and Input Validation options. Summary of steps Step 1 - Download and install ASP.NET Extensions. Read More...
Posted 18 December 07 10:08 by alikl | 1 Comments
Filed under Security, Development Phase, Implementation, Performance, Planning Phase, AJAX
Web Services Over SSL - Is It Really That Slow Like They Say?: My answer is "no" . I am working on solution where there is no Windows Active Directory Domain so we cannot utilize our beloved Kerberos and Windows Integrated Authentication saving big on configuration and management while taking advantage of increased Read More...
Posted 01 August 07 03:35 by alikl | 2 Comments
Filed under Security, Development Phase, Implementation, Deployment Phase, Performance, Authentication, Planning Phase
WCF Security In Intranet Scenario : Thoughts On Cons and Pros: I am researching on best practices with WCF security in terms of "YOU SHOUD" vs "YOU CAN". While it is great to have "How to" stuff I am also interested in "Why" angle. I have common simple scenario of WinForms client consuming WCF service inside corp Read More...
Posted 26 July 07 01:54 by alikl | 3 Comments
Filed under WCF, Security, Implementation, Deployment Phase, Performance
Typed DataSet - Potential Performance And Security Risk: Are you using Typed DataSet as DTO (data transfer object) ? Are you building distributed systems where the DTO goes back and forth including your Smart Client? If yes then I think you should be aware that the most of your DB schema can be easily revealed Read More...
Posted 06 July 07 09:49 by alikl | 4 Comments
Filed under Security, Development Phase, Implementation, Performance, Planning Phase
Performance Gain - Security Risk: Reposted from Performance Gain - Security Risk Good intention for better performance may lead to flawed design and bring in more security risks. Consider the following ASPX page: Here is why it cannot be accessed: When trying to navigate there you get: Read More...
Posted 27 March 07 03:26 by alikl | 4 Comments
Filed under Test Phase, Security, Code Inspection, Implementation, Performance

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