ASP.NET sees the session cookie and loads the session (or doesn't, and starts a new one). This is why people recommend serving static, unauthenticated resources like images from a separate domain.

Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database. In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications ...

Microsoft officials are showcasing some of the new fruits of its partnership with Red Hat at this week's Red Hat Summit in San Francisco. On Thursday, Microsoft execs will demonstrate SQL Server on ...

I'll soon be developing an application that will be controlled access, but will be visible to the whole Internet. All of the web apps I've developed before have been for internal networks, so I've ...

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Learn to change the default behavior and return HTTP 404 when action methods in ASP.NET Core return null values. ASP.NET Core MVC is the .NET Core counterpart of the ASP.NET MVC framework. You can ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

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Defeat hackers by running the Microsoft Web Application Configuration Analyzer with the same security checks that Microsoft uses on its own servers Microsoft has just released version 2.0 of its Web ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) on Monday for Microsoft SQL Server and ASP.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. SQL support is currently set for ...