My blog has been quiet for a long time now, I had a crowded month I didn't get the time to write anything but I am back to writing I hope so.

Last month I had some working tasks on new technologies (for me) , a new course to study for and of course all my PreMasters studies in my university.

So, I think my focus next blog post will be on the new stuff I learned about Sharepoint 2007 and workflow foundation hope I can write something useful.

By the way I have just passed the 70-631 Exam TS: Configuring Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. So I have a new MCTS in my transcript.

A while ago, Al Nyveldt wrote a post on 5 things he loves about BlogEngine.Net  and I totally agree with him on all the 5 and more coming in the future releases,  Mads Kristensen too wrote and made a video on a the widget framework on a nice feature coming up in the next version of blogengine.net.

BlogEngine.Net is built to take advantage of standards, one standard I loved that is implemented in BlogEngine is the OpenSearch 
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In my previous post I showed that ASP.NET application goes through 3 security context levels and discussed the first one :

1. IIS Level
2. ASP.NET worker process level
3. ASP.NET pipeline level

In this post, I will talk a little on ASP.NET worker process level, before starting I would like to point out the development environment we use, the development machines run windows XP and IIS 5.1, the server runs windows server 2003 on IIS 6 of course, so I need to point out the differences. More...

Lately at SCS I have been assigned to build up the security module and related tasks in the Real Estate Management System we are building. So I decided to share what I have learned in this past period and of course to hear from the community to find optimal solutions for the scenarios I worked with, all what I write here might be repeated but I will share it anyway. More...

In my tour in exploring GDI+ I explored the Brush object, now its time for some Pen stuff.

While the Brush classes are used to fill shapes, the Pen class is used to frame shapes. However, Pens are not only used for simple frames. Here in this post I show some advanced uses for the Pen. More...

Few days ago, I blogged about how to enable auto formats in the design time smart tag by overriding simple property, this post will describe how to enable design time template editing in a similar simple way.

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Back to design time support, but this time with ASP.NET server controls, most complex & simple controls built in the .NET framework are associated with an Auto Format.. link in the smart tag as the one shown in the figure, I showed in a previous post how to add links and properties to the smart tag of a control.

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Have you ever seen a file with a pretty icon you wanted to use but you couldn't get a similar one in your program?
If yes,  try this method >> Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon here is the code I wrote that works fine, you will also find the sample attached

IconExtractor.zip (7.03 kb)

One of the core classes in the GDI+ framework built in .Net is the Brush class. There are 5 types of Brushes in .Net that help you to color your objects by lot of variations the five types are as shown in the figure :

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ASP.NET as well as .NET applications have one more excellent feature, ASP.NET uses a flexible configuration management system that keeps the application configuration separate from application code. ASP.NET configuration is stored in XML files with the .config extension, which makes it easy for users to change it before, during and after deployment.

The configuration file we all are aware of is the web.config file found in the application root, which when added has almost very simple configurations. But guess what that is not the only configuration file that your ASP.NET application relies on, there are other config files that your application inherit that configuration by default, next I will show the Configuration Hierarchy in ASP.NET. More...