Mar 27 2006

MVP Open Days - UK 2006

Category: — Bil@l @ 16:16

I have been in UK for 3 days. I arrived to London on Saturday March 25th, spent lovely two days in the streets of London, and today we started our first day in the MVP Open Days in Cambridge City, Microsoft Research Labs.

I will be posting a looot of pictures soon on my blog to let you share with me the lovely experience I am having in this first trip of mine outside my lovely country, Lebanon.

Regards

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Mar 19 2006

Protect Configuration Sections in Web.Config

Category: ASP.NET 2.0 - General — Bil@l @ 19:36

As you know, mostly developersdo place the connection string inside the web.config file. Sometimes, we need to use a username/pwd in the connection string and not only use Trusted Connection. It is always recommended to protected those areas inside your Web.Config especially when they include sensitive data.
In ASP.NET 2.0, it is so easy to accomplish this. I am going to show you a method that will allow you to encrypt/decrypt any section inside your Web.Config file. This method is the result of my complete research on this topic, by reading several articles online, whose links are shown below: