Back in a learning mode once more (currently wrangling information on XmlTextReader and multithreading). Also been rediscovering the wonderful DotNetRocks shows, check them out - great for long journeys / passing time in airports! My current information source…
Found this on Ashutosh Nilkanth'sblog (good name!), basically allows you to run pretty much any CLR code using a Sql Server extended stored procedure - not nearly as good as Yukon, but if you need to do this now, it is a start!
As I've posted many times, I'm a relative novice when it comes to all things WinForms, this post on Slashdot got me thinking, isn't 'Updating an Application over the Internet' exactly what the Updater Application Block and Windows Update do, not to mention…
How does this guyfind the time, anyway, found on Roy Osherove's blog, Chris Brumme(CLR God) has posted and article on the Exception model in the CLR. Not exactly light reading...but worthwhile to gain a bit more precious insight into the deep and murky inner…
@Stakehave just released a study looking at the relative security of .NET vs. WebSphere (WebSphere is probably the most secure App Server for J2EE). I have to say, I trust @Stake more than most, having have a good deal of involvement them in years gone by...
Just discovered the dotnetjunkies weblogs , where I found thesereally useful links to a bunch of interesting .NET stuff...more later (back to blogging again :-))
In a previous post, I mentioned I used BZip2 for my compression - mainly because, it's simple, offers the best XML compression for a generic algorithm - IMHO, i.e., not one designed specifically for XML compression like XMill - which if anyone knows a C# or…
This is also pretty nice :-P
I'm working...hmm...thought I'd mention a very odd bug I came across yesterday at work - which had me puzzled for about a day and a half... I had written an application (the Portal I've mentioned before - The Education Community), which uses the Data Access…
There's an odd issue when you try to use Passport on Windows Server 2003 - basically, the default 'Secure Level' of Passport is 10, unfortunately if you don't use SSL this means Passport won't work correctly for you. In .NET this manifests itself as the…