Improving Web Application Security

Integrate proven performance and scalability techniques throughout the .NET application life cycle - and gain an edge in building better-performing products. This guide presents a robust framework organized by task and role, helping developers, architects, testers, and administrators prioritize and implement the best options at the appropriate time. It offers focused, end-to-end guidance - including processes for modeling performance and...

Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications provides an end-to-end approach for implementing performance testing. Whether you are new to performance testing or looking for ways to improve your current performance-testing approach, you will gain insights that you can tailor to your specific scenarios.

There are a considerable number of options available to architects and developers when it comes to Web service security. The WEB SERVICE SECURITY guide helps developers and architects make the most appropriate security decisions in the context of the solution's requirements. This asset contains reliable, accurate guidance on how to design and implement secure Web services.

With this guide, the authors set an ambitious course to help professional programmers understand the architecture of XML Web services and implement the right solutions by creating and consuming best-of-breed XML Web services. The book provides a hands-on exploration of how to design, build, and use XML Web services to help developers break new ground with their Web applications. Topics...

ASP.NET, the next generation of Active Server Pages, provides a new programming model based on the Microsoft .NET Framework for writing Web applications. Learn about ASP.NET development - with reusable code samples in languages such as Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# - in DESIGNING MICROSOFT ASP.NET APPLICATIONS. This book provides an in-depth look at how to create...

Most Web applications follow a simple 3F pattern: fetch, format, and forward to the browser. With this in-depth guide, you'll take your ASP.NET and ADO.NET skills to the next level and learn key techniques to develop more complex Web applications. Discover how to build applications for ad-hoc and effective Web reporting, applications that work disconnected from the data source and...

Building secure distributed Web applications can be challenging. It usually involves integrating several different technologies and productsyet your complete application will only be as secure as its weakest link. This guide presents a practical, scenario-driven approach to designing and building security-enhanced ASP.NET applications for Microsoft Windows 2000 and version 1.1 of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It focuses on the key...

The shift from stand-alone desktop applications to Web-enabled applications that accommodate hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users makes performance testing critical. Find out how to make your Microsoft .NET-based applications perform as well as or better than traditional desktop applications with this book - written by the Microsoft team that tests and tunes hundreds of Web sites and Web-based applications....

This update of a popular Microsoft Press title shows programmers how to use the Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 to create powerful, next-generation applications that are available anywhere, on phones, Pocket PCs, and other mobile devices. With this title, programmers learn how to incorporate dynamic access to data with ADO.NET, plus how to deliver content...