Interactive Web Development (CIS 311)

ASP.NET sites under attack {0}

Hackers are in the midst of a massively successful SQL injection attack. All of the attacks are built on Microsoft’s ASP.Net platform. 180,000 web pages have been affected. The hackers plant malicious JavaScript scrips onto web pages that causes the browser to load an iframe with remote sites. From there, the iframe plants malware on [...]

Things to know about Web.Config inheritance and Overrides in ASP.NET {0}

Galloway gives readers tips regarding that curious thing in Visual Studio that says web.config whenever you start a new blank web page. Tip 1 is about  using the config in subfolders and the laws of inheritance. In this case parent config are that aren’t over written are general and the child configs are generally small. [...]

ASP.NET Web Forms versus MVC Framework {0}

Web developers have a choice between using ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET Model-View-Controller. ASP.NET Web Forms is an older but faithful option for developers to work with in creating websites. The Model-View-Controller is essentially a newer way for developers to structure their design patterns by dividing an application up into more concise areas of focus. [...]

Visual Studio 11, ASP.NET 4.5, and ASP.NET MVC 4 {1}

ASP.NET 4.5 Soon to be Released According to this article web developers will see the next version of Visual Studio (11), ASP.NET (4.5), and ASP.NET MVC (4).  The article talks about the never features of the software and how if you’re using the Web Application Template project, the content for the default.aspx page, has become [...]

Amazon Web Services Announces New ASP.Net Services For Developers Worldwide {0}

This article simply talks about what Amazon has recently announced about their implementation of a new service for Windows developers along with the launch of their new database services for Microsoft SQL Server and ASP.Net support of their proprietary cloud service known as Elastic Beanstalk. Amazon RDS purpose is to remove the complexity of deploying [...]

Web apps load quicker with new upgrade to ASP.Net MVC {1}

The article I read this week was about how Microsoft is upgrading (or already has upgraded) its ASP.Net MVC software. This software enables development of web applications through the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern. Microsoft is adding mobile web functionality and capabilities for creating web apps that load quicker. The beta release will be included in the [...]

ASP.NET DoS Vulnerability {2}

There has been controversy over recently a discovered vulnerability in Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web development platform. A new exploit code has emerged and been published online, increasing the risk of potential attacks on users. The patched denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability was first announced last December at the Chaos Communication Congress, Europe’s largest and oldest hacker conference. “This [...]

ASP.NET is a double edged sword {1}

This article is about how exploit code was now being used to hack websites that use the Microsoft’s ASP.NET web development software.  It problem is identified as “CVE-2011-3414″ and was given out by the Chaos Communication Congress.  They describe the attack to be able to consume all of the web server’s cpu usage.”  This means [...]

Visual Studio 11 {3}

The article that I read was about the new features for Visual Studio 11. The first new feature that visual studio 11 has is that it will allow for backwards compatibility between visual studio 10 and 11. This means that if you have projects that you did in visual studio 10 and wanted to upgrade [...]

ASP.Net using servers {1}

Microsoft Active Server Pages also known as ASP was first released in 1996 and has provided web developers with a rich and complex framework for building web applications. But since 1996 ASP has evolved greatly and has improved a lot. ASP is still known but they have now renamed it ASP.NET. It is a framework [...]

ASP.NET DoS Vulnerability {1}

Microsoft’s ASP.NET web development platform had its vulnerability, CVE-2011-3414, patched. The “vulnerability could allow an anonymous attacker to efficiently consume all CPU resources on a web server, or even on a cluster of web servers,” according to Suha Can and Jonathan Ness, who are Microsoft Security Response Center engineers. An anonymous user, HybrisDisaster, “published a [...]

ASP.Net upgrades for Mobile {0}

Microsoft is upgrading its ASP.Net MVC software, adding mobile Web functionalty and capabilities for building Web applications that load faster, a company official said. ASP.Net MVC 4 Beta was released earlie. ASP.Net MVC enables development of Web applications via the popular Model-View-Controller architectural pattern. The beta release will be built into the beta version of [...]

Hacker Proof ASP.NET Applications with SecurityChecker 1.0 {2}

The author of this article talks about a Microsoft plug-in called SecurityChecker 1.0 by Compuware’s DevPartner. This plugin pretty much verify your source-code, a run-time analysis and integrity checking. This particular plug-in is for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003 at the time. The way this plug-in works is it can make a “discovery map” of [...]

Imagine Cup 2010 {2}

Imagine Cup is an international annual Microsoft competition, were competitor have to solve that years’ challenge  using only Microsoft’s products. The given task in the Imagine Cup 2010 was ‘Applications to the world’. Out of all the competitor, six team have made it to final with some extremely innovating technology. Finland, create a  program call [...]

ASP.net… a must in education! {0}

Having just began our journies into ASP.net and Visual Basic framework, it’s still amazing that we have the opportunity to learn these skills and apply them to our futures. The article I have found this week shares a view on incorporating ASP.net into Information Systems Curriculum. The author points out, “Information systems curriculums should accommodate [...]

How Secure is the Information when Passing Between ASP and ASP.NET? {6}

The article I read talks about how user can transfer information between systems using ASP.NET in multiple ways; however, many are complicated, or insecure. For example, many data transfer methods pass information in plain text, which makes the data vulnerable to both interceptions. However, some methods were introduced in this article that interact with data used [...]

.NET Open Source {7}

The article I read this week discussed the how ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages source codes will now be released under an open source code, Apache 2.0.  API.NET MVC, Web API and Web Pages will have their code repositories hosted on CodePlex and this will allow for the projects development transparency.  By hosting [...]

Web Development With ASP.NET MVC {2}

As discussed last week, Microsoft ASP.NET is a common web development tool. ASP.NET MVC (Model View Controller) is a component, built into ASP.NET that offers built in AJAX functionality and support of jQuery. As we progress further in web development, we are starting to see that AJAX is becoming more standardized to many web applications. [...]

How SaaS is Satisfying Salespeople {1}

Celia Heywood, vice president of sales solutions for Bank of America Merchant Services, has always faced a dilemma when paying out the salespeople’s salaries at any given time. Often times, the salespeople would complain to Celia due to the fact that they felt that their extra incentives and commissions weren’t properly calculated (Mullins, 2012). However, [...]

Follow-Up: The Emotion Driven Design {3}

Last week, I wrote about recent research concerning how emotions play a big part in web design.   So much so that research and development departments in many companies spend millions of dollars every year attempting to understand the correlation between site preference and emotional response.  I previously thought that this was the only research project [...]