Azure, .NET and Software development

You can face a problem with your connection strings or other confidential and critical information is stored in configuration file when hosting web site or distributing application to clients. You have many solution options in this case like using SSO, SSS, store encrypted data in a database. But these methods are time consuming and sometime expensive. The solution I can offer is to encrypt data in configuration file using System.Configuration library from .NET Add reference to System.Configuration to your project and run this code once // Get the current configuration file. System.Configuration.Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration( ConfigurationUserLevel.None); // Get the section. ConfigurationSection section = config.GetSection("connectionStrings"); // Protect (encrypt)the section. section.SectionInformation.Prot

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BizTalk includes SharePoint adapter which can be used for sending and receiving data from/to SharePoint You could see that that sending adapter even is limited with 16 fields. But what to do if you want to send more then 16 fields, attach a file to Item, do manipulations with a List/Library etc. I would like to recommend to use native web services from SharePoint which can be found at http://localhost/_vti_bin/lists.asmx Use UpdateList to insert and update List Items you can use GetListItems method to serach for Items in a List for more methods and description check http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/lists.lists(v=office.12).aspx for other SharePoint Services check http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd878586(v=office.12).aspx which you can use by calling from orchestrations