Month: October 2006

Here’s how to do it:

• Copy all files in the C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727ASP.NETWebAdminFiles to a directory inside C:inetpubwwwroot (likely called Admin) – IGNORE the one that is in the inetpubwwwrootaspnet_webadmin…that is a bad copy!!!
• Go into IIS, make the directory a web application, set it’s asp.net version to 2.0
• The default.aspx page that normally loads expects the queryString variables of applicationPhysicalPath and applicationURL (as the web application is modifiying membership/roles/profile via the providers and the updating the web.config file of the web application you are pointing it at)!!!
• You can set this statically in the default.aspx page and have it not care about the queryString variables
• Then you would want to lock down the web with IIS authentication

You can use the System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider class to do Membership against active directory!!!

However, you have to setup a special connection string to point to a domain controller and to run as a user to query LDAP.

I’ll be working with this a little bit later and will likely post the code for this project somewhere…

Here is more info on how to do this:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.activedirectorymembershipprovider.aspx

Every student and friend has seen my codegen tool, but few have got to use it.  I will be posting details of the tool here and reference the website when I implement a more 2.0 friendly codegen stack inside of it.  Look out CodeSmith!!

Download ATLAS here:

http://atlas.asp.net

You really need to use Enterprise Library, get to downloading and refactoring today!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A7D2A109-660E-444E-945A-6B32AF1581B3&displaylang=en

I’m working on it…almost have it, this darn 400 response from MSMQ is driving me crazy.  Later I might post the code for everyone to take a gander at and let me know what I might be missing…

By far, the coolest things about BizTalk 2006 are:

• Flat File Schema generator…wow…that thing is awesome!
• Application containers in the BizTalk Admin Console…good job MS!
• Bigger window to code custom C# code in orchestrations…woohoo!

There are a few others, but dang…those are some biggies!

Your web services aren’t secure!  Secure them!  Utilize features like certificate based non-repudiation and encryption.  If your web service transport is running slow, then utilize MTOM to compress your messages!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/webservices/building/wse/default.aspx

BizTalk continues to make the world it’s oyster…err..playground???

http://adapterworx.com/cs/products/wse3.0.aspx

These are the top new features of ASP.NET:

• Master Pages!
• Web Diagnostics
• Provider Model (Membership, Roles, Security)
• Asyncronous Web Pages!

If you think your web pages are fast and well architected, but you didn’t use the things above, then you don’t know that you don’t know those things will make it even faster and well architected!