I went to the DevDays...
... and all I got was this lousy CodePlex Sticker.
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Integrating Enterprise Library Validation Application Block with LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework Part 3: The complexity of custom validators.
This article shows the complexity a developer is facing, implementing a custom validator while using an O/RM tool. While the article uses the Validation Application Block and LINQ to SQL in writing the validation logic, the problems encountered in the article are very general.
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Protecting against XML Entity Expansion attacks
Tom Hollander describes on his blog a denial of service attack I never knew the existence of, called XML Entity Expansion attack. Tom explains how to bring a server down on his knees when allowing any type of xml document as input and passing it directly to an XmlDocument for parsing.
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Integrating Enterprise Library Validation Application Block with LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework Part 2: Using context within custom validators.
This article describes how to write custom validators for the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block, in such a way that it runs within the context of a specific LINQ to SQL DataContext or Entity Framework ObjectContext class, which allows analysis of non-persisted (in-memory) changes in that context.
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