Great article on Eggheadcafe.com on ultra-compact binary serialization of DataSets

Was having a look at this article by Peter A. Bromberg Ph.D. (don't know if that's his given name ;-)) over at Eggheadcafe.com, I always found it a bit annoying that DataSets serialized to XML only. Using the incredibly cool CompactFormatter, combined with the…

More on my journey into the wonderful world of ASP.NET 1.x ViewState

I wrote in a previous post that I was planning to have a poke around with ViewState, extending the stuff I've done on compression into encryption and signing etc...well there's good and bad news for this plan. It looks like (oddly) that the MAC and encryption…

More on BZip2

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…

ViewState compression using BZip2...latest prototype...

Just a first stab at this, uses some classes I used in another project (I'll attribute the compression code later...I believe I got it from the Sharpziplib stuff - with some modifications - I'll stick the comment headers back in to comply with the Licensing…

Well, I'm back...and comments on some books...

Had a nice, relaxing holiday, read a few books, I can recommend Charles Petzold's Code and kind of recommend Homer, Sussman and Howard's Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 - I say 'kind of' because I found it really patchy in the writing style...but then I've never liked…