Archive for February, 2009
Cookie Basics
Cookies are a basic feature of ASP.NET, and are automatically implemented when Forms Authentication is configured for your web site. Cookies usage can be configured through the ‘Cookieless’ setting of Forms Authentication in the web.config page. On a security note, you should never ask a user if they want their info persisted (”Remember me Next [...]
ViewState Viewers
Developers have several methods to view the ViewState payload. The easiest route is to use the Trace settings supplied by ASP.NET either in the web.config file or inserting Trace=”true” in the Page directive of the page you want to examine.
Fritz Onion of PluralSight.com has a tool to decode the ViewState called appropriately ViewState Decoder. [...]
