A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

General question:<BR>We recently switched one of our applications to Application Role security, which mandates (because the backend is SQL2000) that we turn off .NET Connection pooling for the sql ...

ASP.NET sees the session cookie and loads the session (or doesn't, and starts a new one). This is why people recommend serving static, unauthenticated resources like images from a separate domain. How ...