If you have ever used the System.Threading.ReaderWriterLock to achieve synchronised access to shared resources which are frequently read but infrequently updated then you probably know why we have created a new Reader/Write lock. In this MSDN Magazine...

There are a number of authentication techniques supported by WCF. For instance Windows Authentication, X509 Certificates, Issued Tokens, and Username and Password are all mechanisms that can be used for authentication. These client credential types...

If you have an ASP.NET application, you can use the AuthorizationStoreRoleProvider which adheres to the Role Provider model expected by ASP.NET and retrieves role information from Microsoft Authorization Manager (AzMan). AzMan itself is a COM based...

The Reversible Command design pattern encapsulates a request or an operation as an object, thereby allowing you to queue, log, and serialize requests to a store (volatile or durable) and create undo or rollback requests. With this pattern you basically...

As you are probably aware Thread.Abort() raises a ThreadAbortException in the thread on which it is invoked, to begin the process of terminating the thread. Please note that if Abort is called on a managed thread while it is executing unmanaged code...

As you are probably aware, it is possible to specify the execution timeout of an ASP.NET request through the config file. All you need to do is to set the executionTimeout attribute on the httpRuntime element in either the web.config (for one ASP.NET...