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Why use ASP.NET MVC instead of Web Forms?

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Diganta Kumar — Leave a comment

I have been asked this question so many times. Why use ASP.NET MVC instead of Web Forms? My answer is simple, because it’s better. If you are not convinced please see below, ASP.NET MVC is a completely new framework for building…

Web Config Encryption/Decryption in Framework 4.0

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Diganta Kumar — 3 Comments

The RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider is the default protected configuration providers. It supports machine level and user level key containers for key storage. RSA machine key containers are stored in “C:\Documents and Settings\All users\Application data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys” in Windows server 2003. The default ‘keycontainerName’ for…

Enable Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 in Visual Studio 2012, 2010 and 2008

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Diganta Kumar — 69 Comments

Web Service Enhancements 3 (WSE 3) is not officially supported since Visual Studio 2008. The reason is that Microsoft wants you to migrate your code to WCF. See below to enable Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 in VS2012, VS2010 and…