Configuration, Deployment and Security

Retrieving Application Settings from the web.config

The web.config file contains configurable settings in an XML format that represents how the various features of ASP.NET should be employed for an instance of your application on that web server. The web.config allows the developer to store application settings, such as database connection strings or paths, that you can read from within your application. This video contains some introductory information about the web.config file and accessing it from code.

Using Dynamic Properties

Dynamic Properties are direct links from server controls like ADO.NET DataConnection and DataCommand objects to the web.config configuration file. This technique allows you to take advantage of the power of the configuration file without and coding. This video demonstrates the use of Dynamic Properties within your applications.

Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Login using Forms Authentication in ASP.NET

Demonstrates how to create a Custom Login page that forces users to autneticate themselves against a SQL Server database table. Demonstrates the use of a couple of classes in the System.Web.Security class.

Using Roles to Secure Content

Creates an applications that utilizes role information saved in a database to allow or disallow users to see content on a given page, entire pages or folders (detailed in the next video, 3512). Talks about using

Setting Authentication on Entire Folders in Web Forms

Demonstrates the problems with the previous video's example (in terms of hack-ability) and demonstrates settings you can make to lock down content within your application.

Introduction to Deploying .NET Apps

Powerpoint presentation detailing some basic deployment concepts

Walkthrough: Deploying WinForms Apps

Demonstrates the workflow necessary to create a Windows Installer (.msi) for a WinForms app. Including the various designers to add files, settings and wizard pages.

Walkthrough: Deploying WebForms using Copy Project

Demonstrates how to use the Copy Project command to deploy a web site to a server.

Security Baseline Analyzer

Security Baseline Analyzer

IIS Lockdown Tool

IIS Lockdown Tool

IIS Settings (Web Permissions)

IIS Settings (Web Permissions)

Dangers of Copy Project

Dangers of Copy Project

Writing to the System Registry

Writing to the System Registry

Reading from the System Registry

Reading from the System Registry

Building a Trace Listener

Building a Trace Listener

Using Resource Files

Using Resource Files