ICRA (the Internet Content Rating Association) is part of the Family Online Safety Institute, an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet. It is believed that ICRA has been successful in regulating free flow of digital content and protecting children from potentially harmful material. We will see more about this in this article.

RSS feed is an xml formatted document that gives the capability to read frequently updated contents on our websites without visiting our site. This article will help us understand constructing an RSS feeds for our asp.net sites.

It is the IIS registration tool that is used to register the ASP.Net with IIS. This article will helps us understand the usage of the tool and configuring side by side execution.

ASP.Net 2.0 provides a simple way to map a long URL to a short URL through Web.Config settings. This article will help you understand this feature with a simple example.

The Part 2 of this article will help us understanding ToTable() method that was introduced newly in .Netframework 2.0. It creates and returns a new DataTable based on rows in an existing DataView. Read more on this article.

. In this series of article, we will understand some of the new classes and features that the 2.0 framework provides for the developers. This part we will understand DataTableReader Object and SqlBulkCopy object in detail.

ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) was originally designed as a simple and relatively lightweight COM based database API for use with Active Server Pages (ASP) on Internet Information Server (IIS).

ADO is the most popular and well-known of Microsoft’s Data Access API’s. ADO is, like OLEDB, a COM object model for accessing, retrieving and updating data.

This article shows how to call web service methods in a client-side javascript using XmlHttp object.

Whenever we build any web applications it can have requirements to work with popup windows most of the time. This article will help you understand some of tasks that we do more often with popup windows.

With the introduction of 2.0 framework we got so many new useful features that makes our development ease in our applications. Generic list is one of such feature which we can use for creating a collection of similar objects. We can create our collection with generic List, where T can be our BO, which can be strongly typed.

In 1.x days we cannot assign a null value to value types.Assigning a null value will throw an error. C# 2.0 answers this with the introduction of nullable types.

By this article we will understand on creating a custom enumerator implementation with C# for iterating

This article explains on constructing custom collection in C#.

If you select Log File format as “Custom” in the IIS manager, it doesn’t give you options to configure ODBC logging in the UI.In this article I will explain how to configure IIS7.0 site for ODBC logging.

You might see that there is no UI way to take backup, restore backup. Only available way (till Windows 2008 Server RC0) is by the AppCmd tool.Read more here.

Thought of posting this entry which would give some changes that are in IIS7 compared to IIS6, and also few new stuffs introduced in IIS7.

If you were following all the news about IIS7, you would have heard that you can now plug-in ASP.NET Forms Authentication in the main integrated pipeline. Read more on this post.

This article deals with the development of a little game called “Paddling Ball” using WPF technology and is just a demo-like game that uses minor user interactions with not so much of graphical items in it.

This article explains how to use the ProtectMemory and ProtectData classes in System.Security.Cryptography namespace to encrypt and decrypt data by calling wrappers around DPAPI methods.

This article gives you an introduction on Active Directories, Accessing it and updating it.

There are some disadvantages in using string if we want to store some important information’s like password, credit card numbers, bank pins, etc for some manipulations. Read more in this article.

MDAC stands for Microsoft Data Access Component. This article will give us an introduction on MDAC.

Report Caching is used to improve performance. This article will help you to understand the types of Caching and its basics.

This article explains how you can secure a network running DHCP Service.

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Copy GPOs from one location to another Server location.

This article describes which DNS Server to use in production environment.

This article explains how NLB algorithm works internally from a technical point of view. This article only applies to Windows NT, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.