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While certain HTTP Headers are necessary, the web server's identifying HTTP Headers are not necessary. Their inclusion inflates each HTTP response by around 100 bytes. Granted, 100 bytes is not much when taken alone, but when taken in the context of thousands or millions of requests over the course of time, those 100 bytes add up. Furthermore, providing identifying information can pose a security risk. An attacker who knows of a vulnerability in a particular web server and ASP.NET version combination could hunt for targets making HTTP requests to many different servers and flagging those that return the particular web server/ASP.NET version numbers.

This article looks at how to remove these identifying HTTP Headers in both IIS 6 and IIS 7.

This article explores the open source Flickr API library called Flickr.Net, which was created by Sam Judson and was used in my aforementioned project. Specifically, well look at how to create an ASP.NET website that displays a smattering of randomly selected pictures from a particular Flickr user, along with how to show a specific pictures comments (if any exist). And the complete code in both Visual Basic and C# is available for download at the end of this article.

This article explores the three different techniques the Microsoft Chart Controls has at its disposal for generating chart images. Well look at how to use each option, enumerate the pros and cons, and discuss when to consider using one option over another.

This article presents my views and advice on how best to handle exceptions in an ASP.NET application.

The first installment in this article series showed some simple examples of plotting chart data. This article delves into more intricate examples, showing how to plot database data, data from an XML file, and data from other types of data sources.

While the Microsoft Chart Controls have some rough edges, their cost (free), number of chart types, and array of supported charting features make them an excellent choice for adding charts to an ASP.NET web application. This article, the first in a series of articles on the Chart Controls, shows how to download, install, and get started using the Microsoft Chart Controls.

This article shows how to implement incremental navigation, which is a style of navigation where users find information by clicking through a series of lightweight pages, with each click resulting in a small, but highly visible change to the navigation user interface. It differs from traditional drop-down menu navigation in that incremental navigation limits the amount of new choices available to just the next level in the sitemap hierarchy.

This short introduction to.NET shows Access and SQL Server developers how to use a development tool to create connections to data and a user interface to manipulate that data.

This article provides an overview of JSONs rules and illustrates how it is used in AJAX-enabled web applications. Well also look at using the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework's JavaScriptSerializer class, which facilitates serializing and deserializing JSON-formatted messages on the client in JavaScript or in C# or Visual Basic code on the server.

Until recently, there was no built-in support for creating or consuming syndication feeds in the.NET Framework. That changed with the release of the.NET Framework version 3.5, which included a new namespace: System.ServiceModel.Syndication.

This new namespace includes a handful of classes for working with syndication feeds. As aforementioned, syndication feeds are XML files, and for the syndication feed to be of any use it must conform to one of the popular syndication feed standards. The two most popular syndication feed standards are RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0, and these are the standards supported by the classes in the codeSystem.ServiceModel.Syndication namespace. But there is a third format that, while not as popular as RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0, is still used. That standard is RSS 1.0./?p

The good news is that with a little bit of work we can create a class that works with the RSS 1.0 standard and have this class used by the syndication feed-related classes in the.NET Framework 3.5 can be. This article introduces a free library, skmFeedFormatters, which you can use in an ASP.NET 3.5 application to create and consume RSS 1.0 feeds.