Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are becoming a more and more common way to bring websites and servers down.

Today, I ran into an issue regarding the way numbers are parsed in different cultures, which resulted in very wrong numbers.

Recently, one of my readers asked me how to block certain IP addresses from accessing his ASP.NET website.

Since ASP.NET 1.0 you had the ability to toggle the visibility of any HTML tag with the runat=”server” attribute.

Most of the primitive types in the CLR have a Parse method that takes a string and parses it into its own data type.

Whenever you make use of ViewState, Session, Forms authentication, or other encrypted and/or secured values, ASP.NET uses a set of keys to do the encryption and decryption.

To maintain the scroll position after postbacks is important for larger web pages in order to let the user know exactly what is going on.

It’s always a good idea to have a password policy when creating new applications. A password policy can vary from project to project, but the important part is just to have one to begin with.