.NET

Encrypt or Decrypt Connection Strings in web.config

Deploy applications in hosting environment we have to take care of application security items or confidential values of application like secure DB connection string, configuration values etc… To secure all these information, we need to encrypt the keys. ASP.NET 2.0 has built in functionality to encrypt / decrypt few sections of web.config file those are RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider: This … [Read more…]

ASP.NET Page Life Cycle

When a visitor first requests a .aspx page on your server, the server sends it to the HTTP Pipeline. The HTTP Pipeline handles the conversion of application code into HTML. The first class initiated is called HttpRuntime. This class finds a free HttpApplication object to start processing the request. The HttpApplication object then runs the … [Read more…]