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Often when working with web applications it is necessary to secure access to documents or other user supplied resources.  If you look online you will find a number of different recommendations on how to accomplish this.  Some will recommend a HTTP Handler, some will recommend a simple ASPX, others will have other random ideas.  Regardless of the actual implementation there is always a common area of mixed recommendation, once you have validated that the user has the proper permissions to access the resource, how do you get the item to the user?  In this post I'll discuss a new API that is publicly available in .NET 4.5 that helps with one problem area.

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It is not very often that you see the words "favorite" and "breaking change" within the same sentence.  However, I will say with VS 2012 and .NET 4.5 there happens to be one that I thought I would call special attention to here on my blog as I've talked about the old behavior many times in talks throughout the past few years. 

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If you have been paying attention to what is going on in the Microsoft Community today you will notice is a big day.  Visual Studio 11 Beta as well as Windows 8 Consumer Preview were both released this morning, for those of us developers it means tons of new tools to try out and lots of new functionality that we can use in our applications as well as productivity and language improvements with.NET 4.5.  With this, I'm starting a new blog series highlighting some of the new items that I find helpful, cool, or otherwise interesting with VS 11 Development.  Today's installment talks about Caller Member Info Attributes.

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One of the things that I have been finding that I do a lot recently is updating user security roles based on actions either taken by the users or actions that have been taken by others.  Doing so is quite simple from a DotNetNuke API perspective but how do you go about actually forcing the role membership change right away?  That is what I'll talk about in this post.

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In an effort to start blogging more about the "helpful" items that I have encountered over the years this is one of my first "Quick Tips" related to improving the life of the developer.  We all have had those times where we are tracking down a complex problem within an application and all along the way we have to spend endless time mousing over individual classes to find out what their values are when most commonly we just want to know about one or two key values.  Well in this post, I'll show you a neat trick using the "DebuggerDisplay" attribute to help make this process easier.

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I teach introduction and advanced .NET development courses for a local community college and one item that I always cover in each class is a discussion around Memory Management and Garbage Collection. I am often asked by my students if this is something that they really should be concerned about and my opinion has always been yes, but I know that many developers feel that having an intimate understanding of how Garbage Collection is completed is unnecessary. Finally after a number of constant reminders from students, I thought I would actually put out my "simple" version and explaination out here that I give my students each semester and gather some feedback from my blog readers on their thoughts on the manner.

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