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Archives from 2003

EnterpriseServices and Distributed Transactions

12/29/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
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EnterpriseServices and COMPlus 1.5 (Win XP and 2003)

12/29/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
Since working with EnterpriseServices (ES), I have found some of the nicer features that are available through COMPlus 1.5 (on Windows XP and Windows... Read more

Scott Meyers on Writing Books

12/28/2003

 Books   
If you have previously been a C++ wonk, you probably know Scott Meyers as a household name. He wrote excellent books on Effective C++ and Effective... Read more

NAnt and NAntContrib 0.84 Released

12/28/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Extreme Programming   
Sam points to NAnt 0.84 Final being released. Along with that, I found that the latest NAntContrib Project has been released as well. For tips on... Read more

Effective .Net book desired

12/28/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Books   
Scott Koons posted an interesting comment to my earlier post:Am I alone in thinking that there NEEDS to be a "Effective C#" and "Effective VB.NET",... Read more

Authentication and Authorization

12/19/2003

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Security   
Last night, I had the opportunity to speak to the New Hampshire .Net Users Groupabout .Net Security, in particular speaking about User (Role-Based)... Read more

December NH .Net User Group Meeting Update

12/13/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security   
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Speaking on .Net Security Best Practices to NH .Net Users Group

12/12/2003

 .NET    Security   
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Architecture of Rotor/CLR

12/12/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    Rotor   
My friend Andrew has been doing a lot of research lately to find more information on Rotor beyond the excellent Rotor book (Shared Source CLI... Read more

Developing as a non-Administrator

12/10/2003

 .NET    Security   
Lars Bergstrom wrote an article for MSDN a few months ago called “Developing Software in Visual Studio .NET with Non-Administrative Privileges” and it... Read more

Using Windows Application Verifier for Security Testing

12/9/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security   
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NAnt experiences and questions

12/7/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Extreme Programming   
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Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

12/7/2003

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ADO.NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Books    CLR    COM Interop    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Extreme Programming    Security    Web Services   
Another task I am working on is extensive performance and scalability testing for a large Distributed .Net project.Our approach is to set up tests... Read more

New Rotor research

11/28/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
Andrew talks about continued Rotor research. Plus, Joel Pobar, a PM on the CLR team focusing on Rotor, has a Rotor blog. Subscribed. Read more

Code Access Security with ES, .Net Remoting, Distributed Applications

11/25/2003

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Security   
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.Net and ES/COMPlus Security

11/14/2003

 .NET    ASP.NET    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Security   
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COM Interop article series on MSDN

11/13/2003

 .NET    COM Interop   
Sammentions his COM Interop article series has begun on MSDN. The first installment “Has Anyone Seen the Bridge?” gives an overview of why bridges are... Read more

Code Access Security with ASP.Net and ES

11/9/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Security   
I have been immersed in Code Access Security (CAS) this weekend as we ramp up .Net security for an ASP.Net/Enterprise Services (ES) project.This book... Read more

Rotor and Panther

11/4/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
Eric Albert has successfully ported and tested Rotor (SSCLI) on Panther (on Mac OS X) [by way of Sam]. Panther is based on FreeBSD 5.1. That is great... Read more

Linux/Rotor port and BSD/Rotor patches

11/4/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
After seeing the news about RedHat Linux discontinuing all support for versions 7-8 and 9, Andrew and I have been wondering about our Rotor/Linux... Read more

FreeBSD 5.1 and Rotor, Part 2

11/4/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
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PDC was about new technology

10/31/2003

 .NET   
CarlProthman, in his PDC summary, expresses his dislike of PDC not focusing on current technology as well as new (unreleased) technology. I understand... Read more

PDC Security Symposium

10/30/2003

 .NET    Security   
Tim Sneath has posted several excellentarticles/notesfrom the PDC Security Symposium held today. He may post more, but at this point, here are his... Read more

The Value of PDC

10/29/2003

 .NET    .NET Remoting    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Web Services   
Last night, I had a chance to watch/listento Joe Long, Product Unit Manager for XML Enterprise Services at Microsoft, talk about the migration path... Read more

It's about Design and Architecture

10/28/2003

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Extreme Programming    Web Services   
Clemenscomments that Don Box's talk on Indigo showed the importance of design and architecture, not so much in demo code, but in the content of his... Read more

Rotor BOF news

10/27/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
Benjamingives some of the main pointsfrom the Rotor Futures BOF held last night. This BOF, in particular, was one I was very interested in at PDC. A... Read more

PDC Session Info

10/27/2003

 .NET   
You can find the list of PDC Sessionsincluding updates with PowerPoint slides, demos, etc. Read more

MSBuild much like NAnt

10/27/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Extreme Programming   
According to Scott Hanselman, who is currently blogging Bill Gates' Keynote as I write this:* Showing MSBuild. Holy crap it smells like NAnt. Wow,... Read more

Indigo in a nutshell

10/27/2003

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    COM Interop    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Web Services   
Clemens posts his 2-sentance definition of Indigo:Indigo is the successor technology and the consolidation of DCOM, COMPlus, Enterprise Services,... Read more

FreeBSD 5.1 and Rotor

10/27/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
One item of note Sam mentioned in his Rotor BOF summaryOne thing I encouragepeople to do is look at Rotor on FreeBSD 5.1 the latest and help with any... Read more

CLR Internals and Process Explorer

10/27/2003

 .NET    CLR   
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More PDC info for us non-PDC attenders

10/24/2003

 .NET   
Dan Fernandezpoints out (among other things -- follow his link) another place to get the goods:Even if you're not going to be at PDC, check out PDC... Read more

Interesting case study on SourceOffSite's port to C#

10/24/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns   
Eric Sink, of SourceGearVault fame, points to a Microsoft case study regarding their SourceOffSite product. It was ported from Visual J++to C# in less... Read more

C# 2.0 Specs Available

10/24/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR   
For those of us (especially) who are not going to PDC, the C# 2.0 Specification is now available. For those fortunate 7500 or so that ARE going to... Read more

SQL Security and SQL Server Books Online Update

10/23/2003

 Database Development    Security   
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NAnt and Practical Eye for the .Net Guy

10/23/2003

 .NET    Extreme Programming   
After a long detour through the world of VB/COMPlus, my primary project is finally moving back to .Net. One item we are looking at again is the build... Read more

Michael Howard has a blog

10/23/2003

 .NET    Security   
Michael Howard, one of my favorite security guys, and co-author of Writing Secure Code, Second Edition, has a blog. Subscribed! Read more

GotDotNet Blogs List

10/23/2003

 .NET   
According to LauraJ, the newhttp://blogs.gotdotnet.comhome page is live. All the blogs (86 in total) are sorted by name and work area, along with RSS... Read more

MSDN November, 2003 on Security

10/15/2003

 .NET    Security   
Following up on my security emphasislately, the November, 2003 MSDN magazine is full of greatinformation on security. You candownload the HTML Help... Read more

SQL Server Unit Testing

10/8/2003

 .NET    Database Development    Extreme Programming   
Since my post on unit testing for Oracle/SQL Server, I have been informed there is an open source unit tester available for SQL Server (Transact-SQL)... Read more

.Net Patterns Study continued

10/1/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Books   
Continuing on the topicof studying .Net Patterns, I have noticedcomments to my blog post that Christian Thilmany's book .NET Patterns: Architecture,... Read more

Security Talk, Part 1 continued

9/28/2003

 .NET    Security   
This past week, I concluded my talk on Security Coding: Best Practices. This was a continuation of Part 1 that I started last week. In particular, I... Read more

Security Talk, Part 1

9/20/2003

 .NET    Security   
This past week, I completed the first partof my talks on Security Coding: Best Practicesat my work place. I didn't get as much covered as I had hoped,... Read more

Security, Architecture, and Unit Testing

9/20/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Extreme Programming    Security   
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More Rotor info

9/20/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
I found this great PowerPoint presentation done byJason Whittingtonlast year called Inside Rotor - Poking at the SSCLI for fun and profit. I found it... Read more

XP Software Updates

9/17/2003

 .NET    Extreme Programming   
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Vault and NAnt

9/11/2003

 .NET    Extreme Programming   
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Back from Vermont

9/9/2003

 .NET    CLR   
Yesterday and today, I was in Vermont with Sam at the User Group meeting. Sam was presentingan INETA talk on the CLR. Along with others in the group,... Read more

RedHat Linux 9.0, VirtualPC, Rotor, and Mono

9/7/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
Continuing my journey into Rotor, I finally got my RedHat Linux 9.0 running through VirtualPC 5.2.  Thanks again to Charles Cook and Joseph Cooney for... Read more

.Net Patterns Study Groups

9/7/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Books   
I am wondering if there is current interest in .Net Patterns Study Groups?At work, our team is planning to meet regularly to talk about some of the... Read more

Secure Coding Articles

9/6/2003

 .NET    Security   
I found this list of good Secure Coding resources on the MSDN Security section.  Here is a summary of the list of articles:Getting StartedMSDN How-To... Read more

.NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process

9/6/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Books   
One of best books I have seen lately is .NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process by Christian Thilmany:In the tradition of the GoF Book... Read more

Secure Coding: Best Practices

9/5/2003

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Security   
I was noticing John Lam's two posts this morning on .Net Security:  Securing ASP.NET using Enterprise Services and Improving Web Application Security:... Read more

F5 Revisited

9/4/2003

 .NET   
Eric's post on F5 is what I was trying to say with my E&C post last month, but Eric does it much better.  Read more

VirtualPC and RedHat Linux 9.0

9/2/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
This past weekend, I was playing around with VirtualPC 5.2, much like others.  In particular, since my journey into VMWare, I wanted to see how this... Read more

Iterators and Anonymous Methods

9/2/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
Last month, I mentioned that Don Box talked about Generics at the Boston Dot Net Users Group meeting.  I didn't mention that he also talked about... Read more

PDC Bloggers

9/1/2003

 .NET   
Added my blog: Read more

Rotor on FreeBSD/Linux Continued

8/27/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
As with my previous post, I am working on my FreeBSD 4.8 Release tonight.  Last week, I had problems getting the CD-Rom to mount correctly (which, of... Read more

Larry Kim at the New Hampshire .Net User Group

8/22/2003

 .NET    Books   
Last night, Sam and I went to the New Hampshire .Net User Group to hear Larry Kim speak about XML Schema and other topics concerning Advanced XML Data... Read more

Startup and Shutdown in the CLR

8/20/2003

 .NET    CLR   
Chris Brumme has a new informative post on startup, shutdown, and other related issues in the CLR. Read more

Ingo's new book

8/20/2003

 .NET    .NET Remoting   
Ingo is starting a new book.  He is also blogging about it:If you want to track the progress of this book, head to http://www.ingorammer.com/BookBlog/... Read more

Congratulations to Ingo

8/20/2003

 .NET   
Ingo has just become a Microsoft Regional Director:Regional Directors aren't Microsoft employees--they're independent developers, architects,... Read more

More on FreeBSD, Rotor, and VMWare

8/19/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
Last week, I tried to install my new FreeBSD on my new laptop as a dual boot partition, but ran into problems since my first bootable partition had... Read more

Extreme Programming Pocket Guide

8/19/2003

 Books    Extreme Programming   
There are many resources for Extreme Programming (XP) since its introduction a few years ago. It's difficult, though, to decide where to start to get... Read more

Another Secure Programming book

8/18/2003

 Books    Security   
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Good night to see Don Box

8/14/2003

 .NET   
Just got back from listening to Don Box give the keynote at the Boston Dot Net Users Group meeting tonight.Don talked about Generics, and some new... Read more

I am responsible for my career

8/10/2003

 .NET    Extreme Programming   
Both Doug and Sam talk about taking responsibility for our own professional development careers.Like others, I am paying my own way for PDC.  No one... Read more

FreeBSD and Rotor

8/10/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
I took the FreeBSD plunge yesterday with a purchase of the full 4.8 (Stable) developer edition.  I plan on installing the OS, plus I plan on compiling... Read more

Secure Coding books

8/8/2003

 Books    Security   
A new book came out last month called Secure Coding: Principles and Practices. I am reading this now (just purchased today at SoftPro). It looks to... Read more

Interoperability resource

8/8/2003

 .NET    COM Interop   
Sam has posted a link to an Interoperability page at Microsoft that contains a lot of information on COM Interop.   Read more

Unit Testing Stored Procedures in Oracle/SQL Server

8/4/2003

 COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Extreme Programming   
I just completed a marathon coding session over the last week by logging 82.5 hours for the first phase of the current project I am working on.  I was... Read more

I also feel Edit and Continue is not the way to go

8/1/2003

 .NET    Extreme Programming   
I completely agree with Frans in his latest post. After having used Unit Testing for the last several years, it... Read more

Geeks with toys

7/29/2003

 .NET   
This past Saturday night, three of our team members (Greg, Sam and I) got together for a social event at Sam's house. Of course, we... Read more

DevHawk Wiki

7/25/2003

 Extreme Programming   
Our project team was talking about setting up an internal blog or wiki a few days ago.  Today, Sam noticed Harry Pierson's DevHawk Wiki -- a new Wiki... Read more

Sealed is needed sometimes

7/24/2003

 CLR   
Ingo has a case (an article and examples) for why Sealed is sometimes needed.  Read more

Latest Reflector version

7/22/2003

 .NET   
Get the latest .Net Reflector version (3.3.0.0) that was released July 17. Read more

CLR delegates compared to monikers

7/21/2003

 .NET    CLR   
Don Boxcompares CLR delegates to COM monikers.  Read more

The Build Process

7/20/2003

 Extreme Programming   
Jeff Reese talks about his own experiences with the Build Process.  I am very interested in this area, especially as it applies to The Joel Test.On my... Read more

PDC sessions list

7/20/2003

Brad Adams is asking for recommendations/suggestions for the initial PDC sessions list.  What will be important for you to learn at this conferance? Read more

NUnit gotcha

7/20/2003

 Extreme Programming   
John Lam talks about an NUnit 2.0 gotcha he found.  If you are using the 1.1 .Net Framework, you will need to add a setting to the... Read more

Exciting SQL Blogs activity

7/18/2003

 Database Development   
If you haven't seen it, check out SQL Blogs for lots of great SQL Server info. I have been wanting to post some of my own information about my... Read more

Also a supporter of Vault

7/15/2003

 .NET   
Eric Sink (CEO of SourceGear that produces Vault) and Matthew Reynolds have both been talking about how great Vault is over SourceSafe.  I also would... Read more

More info COM to .Net

7/3/2003

Sam has a couple of great follow-up posts about COM to .Net.  Take a look this one  about Registration free COM Interop and this one about Avoiding... Read more

Windows 2003 Server -- it's about time!

7/2/2003

 .NET   
Sam has an excellent post about Windows 2003 Server.  It's about time that we look at what we have now rather than point to the distant future... Read more

COM to .Net Tool

7/1/2003

 .NET   
Sam has some info about a cool COM to .Net tool on his blog.  Check it out!  He gave us a practical demo today of how a tool like this could be used.... Read more

Pair Programming, Test Driven Development continued

6/30/2003

 Extreme Programming   
I found this great article on Pair Programming best practices tonight.  A couple of key items:  the programming pair should have different levels of... Read more

Aspects and COMPlus/Enterprise Services

6/30/2003

 COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
Clemens talks about his frustrations over the last year with getting Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) to work properly with Enterprise Services (i.e.... Read more

Starting info on Enterprise Services

6/25/2003

 COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
Great starter info on Enterprise Services from Sam.Check it out! Read more

More great info on Enterprise Services

6/25/2003

 COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
More great info on Enterprise Services from an older blog post by Clemens:Great stuff! Read more

Configuration Management Application Block

6/25/2003

 .NET    Security   
There are several Application Blocks from Microsoft lately, but the Configuration Management Application Block (released 6/24/2003) is one I have been... Read more

WinDev Boston 2003 Slides/Demos

6/24/2003

I really appreciate the availability of WinDev Boston 2003 slides/demos from:Sam (with COM Interop and Managed C++), Ingo (with .Net Remoting and... Read more

Study Rotor

6/24/2003

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
Lately, I have been looking at Rotor to better understand the CLR and some of my own work with .Net in general.  If you are not familiar with Rotor,... Read more

Pair Programming, NUnit, and .Net

6/24/2003

 Extreme Programming   
Lately, Sam and I have been doing some Pair Programming on some new .Net classes that will comprise core functionality for the project we are working... Read more

Boston Blogger dinner

6/19/2003

Last night, I joined Sam, Ingo, and Ethan Brown for our Boston Blogger dinner.  We had a great time going to a good Italian restaurant (everyone else... Read more

New FXCop 1.21 version!

6/16/2003

 .NET   
Get the new FXCop 1.21 version for your .Net compliance checking! Read more

CLR Loading

6/16/2003

 CLR   
While checking blogs at Microsoft, I noticed from Brad Adams' blog that Suzanne Cook has a blog (Suzanne is in charge of the work on the CLR... Read more

Other COMPlus background resources for Enterprise Services

6/15/2003

 COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
I almost forgot about these resources in my last post that have been helpful to me:Applying COMPlus - This book by Gregory Brill was very helpful to... Read more

Looking at Enterprise Services

6/15/2003

 COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
This weekend, I have been reading everything I can find on Enterprise Services.  As you may know, this is the .Net extension to COMPlus (now at... Read more

Also wondering about SQL Compare Tools

6/14/2003

 Database Development   
Jayme Davis brings up an issue that I have been interested in for some time about SQL Compare Tools (in particular looking at Red Gate).I reviewed Red... Read more

My first blog

6/13/2003

I am posting my first blog (on this site).I have been working with .Net for the last 1 1/2 years -- first working through the .Net Framework SDK and... Read more

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