How do you operate an Analysis Services data warehouse? Learn how to configure, secure, backup, restore, and monitor the database. Learn techniques for developing and running a system that gracefully handles change in data, design, and usage.

Have you ever needed to have an image of some text generated dynamically on the fly? There are tons of possible applications for this type of thing which I won't go into, but prior to ASP.NET it was a relatively difficult thing to do.I know I promised that I wouldn't go into them, but one of my favorite uses of this type of thing is to tell human visitors to your web site apart from computer visitors (spiders). By generating an image with a text message, you can ask visitors to type in the text to verify that they're not a computer.

This article discusses different options you as a developer have in ASP.NET to send data from one ASP.NET page to another. Since you cannot use ASP.NET Web Controls (System.Web.UI.WebControls) in such a scenario (which only allow posting back of data to the same page), this article discusses other ways like using HttpContext object.This article is about submitting data from Web Forms (forms with runat="server" attribute). You easily submit your form data to another page by removing the runat="server" attribute, then you cannot use more advanced ASP.NET Server controls.

In this article we will take a quick look at two methods for creating SHA1 passwords for use on the web.

In this article we will generate a random serial code for our applications. The script will generate a similiar serial code to use in a real application.

If you're familiar with highly available systems that run on a Web farm; you have multiple machines serving content for your Website. The most common configuration is where you have your development machine, and once you're done with development you place the content on a middle tier server called a staging server. Once content is on the staging server, it is then replicated across the members of the production Web farm. This configuration provides a great amount of performance and redundancy for the Web site. The major drawback is if you want people to be able to upload data to the Web server, usually you have to use some kind of database solution to store the files in a centralized database rather than on the Web server itself. This is due to the fact you are never sure which Web server the file will be uploaded to, and when replication occurs again, it may delete the file since it does not exist on your staging server.

Visual Basic .NET has not only extended the versatility of the Visual Basic language but also harnessed the power of the .NET framework, the new "Delegate" feature is one of them. So now you don't get the sneer of the self proclaimed C++ or Java programmers looking down on VB programmers as mere mortals! More about Delegates, what is the closest you can think of a Delegate? Well a Delegate is an entity that is entrusted with the task of representation, assign or passing on information. In code sense, it means a Delegate is entrusted with a Method to report information back to it when a certain task(which the Method expects) is accomplished outside the Method's class.

Microsoft is set to release an exciting upgrade to ASP later in 2000. This is a major upgrade unlike the minor changes from ASP 2.0 to 3.0. Unlike past upgrades, however, this one will not be painless. When they designed ASP+, Microsoft had to make the hard decision occasionally to break backward compatibility in the interest of improved functionality and features.At the Professional Developer Conference 2000 ASP+ Development Lead Scott Guthrie mentioned that Microsoft was guided by the idea that "There is more Internet time ahead of us than behind us." As an ASP developer with hundreds of thousands of lines of code directly affected by this, I am worried. At the same time, I sincerely feel that they made the right decision.

Learn about migrating from PHP to ASP.NET. Learn about the features, functionality and architecture of both systems.

In this article we will discuss providing a programmable method of securing files on for your ASP.Net applications. This code could come in handy where you have an application hosted on an ISP and you do not have access to a folder outside of your Web directory structure, and you are not able to change permissions on folder in the Web. This method does not require storing your file in a binary field in your database, thus reducing cost of having to buy database storage from your ISP, and with no impact on the network traffic between the database and web servers.