Business Objects are objects in an object-oriented computer application or program that represent the entities within a business domain. A business object will often encapsulate all of the data and business logic associated with the entity in which it represents. Furthermore, business objects provide flexibility and adaptability, scalability and reusability.

Let's take a look at how a business object may look within an ASP.Net web application. Let's say you want to design an application...

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I currently work for an organization that still widely uses Internet Explorer 6. We have only a few machines with IE7 installed. This means that until all computers have been converted, those of us on the development team must develop for both browsers.

I recently ran into an issue using the modal popup, that only appeared in IE6. On the intial page load, when I call the Show() method of the ModalPopupExtender, everything appears fine. It is only after a postback that the problem occurs....

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Since I began my first job back in 2000, (yes, I'm very young and was a Freshman in high school then), I've worked in four different IT environments. Of those four, only one had a good balance of security and efficiency. The policies that were in effect with this organization were strong enough to keep the network and its data safe, but also lax enough to where everyone could do their job.

However, this is not the case with my current employer. I'm a Microsoft .Net Software Developer...

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I posted this as a thread in the ASP Development forum, but now that we have a blog here, I felt this would be a more suitable place for it

Introduction
Although many developers are aware of the importance of application security, many do not know the first place to
begin. This will serve as a guide to help you make your ASP application more secure.

Using MS Access Database
Many developers choose to use Microsoft Access as the backend to their application....

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Over the past year and a half, I've been doing what I can to convert Classic ASP scripters over to ASP.Net programmers.

Why did I call them "scripters"? Because Classic ASP uses scripting languages such as server-side VBScript and server-side JScript, whereas ASP.Net uses programming languages such as VB.Net, C# and J#. These programming languages are full-blown object-oriented languages.

After I was able to successfully convert these former Classic ASP scripters...

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