The Dummy Provider: Testing membership and roles
Asp.net has a wonderful system built in for handling user accounts and roles. The administration interface is encapsulated in a separate web site that can be accessed from within Visual Studio but it is difficult to integrate into the site. This often leads to building a new user administration area in each site. The problem I have with this is going into the data store and deleting the incomplete test data and not having "known good" data for testing. In the past, I have talked about...
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Windows 2008 and SQL 2000
Ok we all know SQL2K has lost support from Microsoft. We all know it is marked with "compatibility" issues with Win2k8. But will it run? Microsoft dropped the ball on us here. They shipped Win2K8 before SQL2000. leaving those of us with giant budgets in a pickle... The option from Microsoft "upgrade to SQL2k5 and buy software assurance". I assure you, their bottom line will thank you. But if you are a smaller shop with limited resources and getting ...
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