Dotnetnuke: Features & Significance

Dotnetnuke is an open source Content Mangement System based on Microsoft .NET framework development. It is basically written using VB.NET, although the majority of ASP.NET developers has shifted to C# ever since the version 6.0 of dotnetnuke is out in the market.

Dotnetnuke is ideal for creation and maintenance of professional websites, which demands constant and frequent updates. The architecture of DNN is very much of open source nature, hence it allows to be acted as single, integrated access point for distributed communities, digital contact as well as online collaboration.

Here are some of the catchy features:
> User friendliness – as the WYSIWYG user interface featuring drag-and-drop mechanism
> Extensible – easy customization of content modules, skins, data providers, templates
> Scalable – high performance portal infrastructure with minimal hardware requirements
> Unrestricted nature – free usage allowed in commercial and non-commercial environments
> Community Ecosystem – active open source community for training and support

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Why to shift from ASP to ASP.NET?

The era of ASP.NET programming in the IT world has made many many programmers and customers to migrate from traditional ASP programming platform to ASP.NET programming platform. These up-gradations and provoked thought processes support them to make their business operations more effective and easy. They both too work on the same web server, hence future compatibility too is not a problem.

Here are some of the standard reasons for shifting from classical ASP to ASP.NET programming:
> Integration of any 3rd party APIs and code structures becomes relatively easy using ASP.NET
> Both ASP and ASP.NET share the same web server, so compatibility is also not an issue
> ASP.NET can manage thrice the number of requests and hits as compared to classic ASP
> Lot of features are getting automatic in case of ASP.NET, and hence requires very fewer amount of efforts comparatively
> Stability and scalability of the system gets increased in case of ASP.NET technology platform

Thus, there are a plenty of advantages associated for all the ASP.NET programmers to shift them to from classic ASP to the upgraded versions.

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Code Access Security in ASP.NET

The ASP.NET security model provides code access permissions and code identity permissions. The code access security is the part of the ASP.NET security model that determines whether or not the code is allowed to run, and what resources it can use when it is running.

The CLR implements the Code Access Security based on the ‘evidence’ gathered about assemblies. Evidence includes such things as:
> Strong Name
> Publisher
> From where the assembly is being loaded
> The URL of the source directory, if in case the assembly was downloaded from the web

The administrator of the configure CAS policy in ASP.NET programming to restrict the resource types that the code can access and the other privileged operations it can perform. The Code Access Security allows the code to be trusted to varying degrees depending on where the code originates and on the other aspects of the identity of the code. The Code Access Security can also help minimize the damage that might result from the security issues or loopholes in the code.

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What is ADO.NET?

This article holds some important information and introduction to ADO.NET (ActiveX Data Objects for .NET). ADO was for the first time released in 1996 and it represented a new way of dynamically retrieving data from any database in ASP.NET programming.

ADO.NET is an object-oriented set of libraries that allows you to interact with data sources. Commonly, the data source is a database, but it could also be a text file, an Excel spreadsheet, or an XML file. But overall, it is used as a way to interact with a data base. ADO.NET is sometimes considered an evolution of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) technology, but was changed so extensively that it can be considered an entirely new product.

Thus, ADO.NET is the .NET technology for programmers to interact with data sources. You have several Data Providers, which allow communication with different data sources, depending on the protocols they use or what the database is.

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Common ASP.NET Application Security Flaws

For highly secure ASP.NET Web applications, such as Internet banking sites, you may want to implement a more secure solution for user authentication than the user name and password combination. You can use client-side digital certificates to verify the identity of the user. In addition, you can map client-side digital certificates to Windows accounts on the server if necessary.

There is a wide array of attacks that ASP.NET web applications need to protect against but most security holes are due to flaws in the following:

Authentication... makes easier for attackers to reveal the User’s credentials, or worse to dig down the application’s authentication altogether. The secure password policy, brute force attacks and password hashing are the part of authentication mechanism.

Authorization… Allowing logged-in users to perform actions without authorization verification. This can possibly be ensured with all ASP.NET web pages in a consistent manner.

Data validation… is all about trusting data submitted by the User and then acting upon it. It is generated by the lack of data consistency throughout the web, and failing to encode the data sent to the server.

App configuration… is about using some default configuration on the application and hosted server. Different applications require different configurations but the focus of this section is on those that fall under the responsibility of the web developer.

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Exception Handling in ASP.NET

Exceptions or errors are unusual occurrences that happen within the logic of an application. The CLR has provided structured way to deal with exceptions using Try/Catch block. While errors occur in ASP.NET programming, they either get handled or needs re-look at the code. While an unhandled exception propagates, the User may be redirected to an error page using different ASP.NET configuration settings.

The programmers can control the exceptions that get thrown and prevent a redirection. Error or exception handling in ASP.NET can be further categorized into 2 categories as below:

• Handling exceptions as and when they are thrown
• Redirecting the User to an error page when errors go unhandled

Logically, as a ASP.NET developer, you cannot program for every possibility. Hence, they are imminent.

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Global Assembly Cache in ASP.NET

The Global Assembly Cache, popularly known as GAC is a machine-wide .NET assemblies cache for CLR (Common Language Runtime) platform. This justifies their approach of having a specially controlled central repository addresses the shared library concept and helps to avoid the drawbacks. In simpler terms, every computer on which the CLR is installed has a machine-wide code cache – and that is known as Global Assembly Cache (GAC). It enables you to share assemblies across numerous applications for ASP.NET developers.

The GAC is automatically installed with the .NET runtime. It is located in ‘Windows/WinNT’ directory and inherits the directory’s access control list that administrators have used to protect the folder. This is a very unique feature for all the ASP.NET developers. The Global Assembly Cache Tool allow you to view and manipulate the contents of the GAC.

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Common Language Specification: ASP.NET Programming Concept

The CLS rules basically define a subset of the Common Type System. The Common Language Specification is the basic set of rules to which any language which is targeting the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) should confirm in order to interoperate with other CLS-compliant languages. It has been defined as a set of basic language features needed by many applications, which the ASP.NET developers need to develop the applications and services.

When it comes to communication between different objects in .NET languages, those objects must expose all the features that are common to all the languages. The CLS ensures complete interoperability among applications, regardless of the language used to create the application.

It defines a set of Common Type System (CTS) – which in turn describes a set of types that can use different languages for interaction. The Common Language Specification is standardized by ECMA too.

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Garbage Collection in .NET

The garbage collection is an inline program running in background to Windows applications. It is basically a mechanism to release the unreferenced objects from the memory. The ASP.NET developers no longer need to worry about the need to manage the life-cycle of the objects they create – the garbage collector will take care of them once the application has finished with them.

When a program creates an Object, the Object takes up the some chunk of the available memory. Later, when the program has no more references to that Object, the Objects’ memory becomes unreachable, but not freed as such. The Garbage collection inspects to see if there are any Objects that are no longer being used by the application. If such objects exist, then the memory used by these Objects can be reclaimed. So, these unreferenced Objects should be removed from memory, and then the other new Objects the developers create can find a place in the program.

In ASP.NET language, there is a provision that we can call Garbage Collector explicitly in the program by calling System.GC.Collect.

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Multithreading in ASP.NET

Thread in terms of computer science means a sequence of execution instructions that can run independently, that is a single flow of execution in a process. Multithreading allows multiple processes to execute concurrently within a single program. Multithreading in ASP.NET is very fast and it is able to use the maximum processing power of the computer processor. Every ASP.NET developer should understand the basics of how threads and processes work on the platform they are writing on the go.

If multiple threads exist within a process, typically share the state information of a process, and also share memory and other resources directly. Each thread maintains exception handlers, a scheduling priority, and a set of structures the system uses to save the thread context until it is scheduled.

Concluding..
Using threading in the correct places in the code structure in your applications can greatly improve web server performance, and also provide the Users with a better web experience. So, threading is a very important concept for all the ASP.NET developers, and hope this article helps to build your first application using multithreading concept.

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ASP.NET MVC 4: Bundling & Minification

Any website or web-application is basically built on 2 facets.. server-side programming and Client-side programming. As the Client-side programming/operations increase, the programmers need to make user of more and more JavaScripts to make it more attractive. And as the use of JavaScripts increase, the browsers start responding with typically low response times. To overcome this, we need to combine all JavaScripts files in one. But as far as code maintainability is concerned, this is not the right move. Another way is to combine and minify all the JavaScript files on the program. This is the best possible solution.

With .NET 4.5 and MVC 4, Microsoft has introduced a new feature called Bundling and Minification which bundles the multiple JavaScript and CSS files in one requests and minify their combine effect  by removing white spaces and characters, which are not required. Microsoft introduced a new class called BundleTable which takes care of Bundling and Minification.

The BundleTable class is shipped with two inbuilt Bundles for JavaScript and CSS respectively. However, the ASP.NET programmers can easily create their own custom Bundle as per the requirement. Thus, with .NET 4.5, it is easier to implement Bundling and Minification with very less effort and without major changes. Hope this will be helpful.

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Web services in ASP.NET

The web services are the external code write-ups, which are usually used as a smart ways – to be used as injections to the main code of a program. The web service enhancements are the add-ons to the Microsoft .NET Framework which includes a set of classes that implement the additional WS (Web service Specifications). They are basically used to enhance the areas like security, reliable messaging, and sending of the attachments to the various possible places in ASP.NET programming.

They are basic building blocks of the business logic of any program. The business logic components provide the functionality via the Internet using the some of the standard protocols available, for e.g. HTTP.

The web services communicated via different technical messages to the main code of the website. The Web Services Enhancements (WSE) provides extensions to the SOAP protocol and allows the definition of custom security, reliable messaging, policy, etc. The ASP.NET developers can add these capabilities at design time using code or at deployment time through the use of a policy file. Moreover, the web services can convert any application into a web-application, which can publish its function or message to the rest of the world.

The basic web services platform is XML + HTTP.

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Session Objects in ASP.NET

The ASP.NET session state identifies requests from the same browser during a limited time window as a session, and provides a way to persist variable values for the duration of that session. So, by default the ASP.NET session state is enabled for all ASP.NET applications.

In this article, we will share and explain about the Session objects in ASP.NET.

In classic ASP, the Session object was held in process to the IIS process and therefore any crash to the IIS or apps domain being reset will cause the whole Session object being reset. Hence, this will make the Session objects not reliable at all and cannot be used to store important data especially if your e-commerce type of website.

There are 3 types of storage providers for ASP.NET:

1. In Process Session State store (Stores sessions in ASP.NET memory cache--> Used in Classic ASP)
2. State Server Session State Store (Stores sessions in the ASP.NET State Server service)
3. Sql Session State Store (Stores sessions in Microsoft SQL Server Database and is configured with aspnet_regsql.exe)

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DotNetNuke Application Development

DotNetNuke (DNN) is a web content management system by Microsoft .NET. Apart from web content management system, you can also develop robust web applications using DotNetNuke. DNN enable developers to change the look of the website and add different functionalities through different DotNetNuke app. Using this platform developers can develop powerful web applications and CMS solutions. Developers can easily build and test customized web applications and CMS using open APIs to ensure that the applications are functioning in a smooth manner. DotNetNuke offers variety of features like :

• The robust content management system enables developers to build CMS solution that meets all your business requirements.
• All DotNetNuke editions have telerik controls features.
• DNN CMS solution offers range of apps that can be used to incorporate additions functionality.
• Containers can be used across the modules or for a single module.
• Developers can easily customize stylesheets to include required elements.
• Files uploaded by administrators or developers are easily on the site and can also be listed as modules.
• You can easily host multiple website using a single hosting account.
• You can also support multiple portals and website through a single database.
• DNN provides separate roles for host and administrator. Host is responsible for managing hosting and e-commerce settings while administrator is responsible for defining different roles different user groups. 

DotNetNuke platform offer lot of opportunities to developers to build robust applications using the capabilities of an open sources platform.

Database Web Application Development in ASP.NET

Oracle or MS-SQL serve as some effective backend to build database applications in ASP.NET. In this article, we will talk about Oracle in general. Oracle integrates directly with Microsoft ASP.NET in a number of ways:

>  Enabling ASP.NET data access by using ODP.NET

>  Using Oracle developer tools for Visual Studio tools

>  Direct integration with Microsoft ASP.NET controls and services

The databases have always been the core part of the dynamic websites for ASP.NET developers.  From the above 3, I guess the 2^nd one is the easy way comparatively to make the database and the frontend of the website interact with each other.

Initially, the ASP.NET developers should use the available tools to build a web application that retrieves the data from the Oracle database into a data grid. After that, a general login control can be added in order to secure the application by permitting only the authorized web users to access the application and the information. Finally, the developers can create any number of authorized web users using Oracle providers for ASP.NET. And all the information for these created web users will be stored within the Oracle database for checking their authenticity.

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URL Shortening for Sharepoint 2010

URL shortening is a technique reportedly done to support the SEO activities of a website. With this, the URLs of all the pages of the website are made shorter creatively and up to a maximum extent and still direct to the required page.

In order to make a long Sharepoint URL short, firstly copy the URL to the clipboard, got to a URL shortener, past the long link over there and copy the short URL you get in return back to the clipboard. It works good, but there are quite some non-regular steps in Sharepoint to go through.

Thus, in the Documents Tab, of every Document Library, a new item is added to the Share and Track group.  The result however looks as below:

Thus, this trick will definitely support the Sharepoint  and the ASP.NET developers to shorten the URLs of the pages and thus help the related SEO activities of the websites. Naturally, the more short and SEO related the URLs are, the more the incoming traffic is going to be.

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