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12/29/2003
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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",...
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Last night, I had the opportunity to speak to the New Hampshire .Net Users Groupabout .Net Security, in particular speaking about User (Role-Based)...
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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 12/10/2003
Lars Bergstrom wrote an article for MSDN a few months ago called “Developing Software in Visual Studio .NET with Non-Administrative Privileges” and it...
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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 11/28/2003
Andrew talks about continued Rotor research. Plus, Joel Pobar, a PM on the CLR team focusing on Rotor, has a Rotor blog. Subscribed.
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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 11/9/2003
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 11/4/2003
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 11/4/2003
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...
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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 10/30/2003
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 10/29/2003
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 10/28/2003
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 10/27/2003
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 10/27/2003
You can find the list of PDC Sessionsincluding updates with PowerPoint slides, demos, etc.
Read more 10/27/2003
According to Scott Hanselman, who is currently blogging Bill Gates' Keynote as I write this:* Showing MSBuild. Holy crap it smells like NAnt. Wow,...
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Clemens posts his 2-sentance definition of Indigo:Indigo is the successor technology and the consolidation of DCOM, COMPlus, Enterprise Services,...
Read more 10/27/2003
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...
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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...
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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...
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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 10/23/2003
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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...
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Michael Howard, one of my favorite security guys, and co-author of Writing Secure Code, Second Edition, has a blog. Subscribed!
Read more 10/23/2003
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 10/15/2003
Following up on my security emphasislately, the November, 2003 MSDN magazine is full of greatinformation on security. You candownload the HTML Help...
Read more 10/8/2003
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 10/1/2003
Continuing on the topicof studying .Net Patterns, I have noticedcomments to my blog post that Christian Thilmany's book .NET Patterns: Architecture,...
Read more 9/28/2003
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 9/20/2003
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,...
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I found this great PowerPoint presentation done byJason Whittingtonlast year called Inside Rotor - Poking at the SSCLI for fun and profit. I found it...
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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 9/7/2003
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...
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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 9/6/2003
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...
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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 9/5/2003
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 9/4/2003
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 9/2/2003
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...
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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 9/1/2003
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Read more 8/27/2003
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 8/22/2003
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 8/20/2003
Chris Brumme has a new informative post on startup, shutdown, and other related issues in the CLR.
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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 8/20/2003
Ingo has just become a Microsoft Regional Director:Regional Directors aren't Microsoft employees--they're independent developers, architects,...
Read more 8/19/2003
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...
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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...
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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 8/10/2003
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...
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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...
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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 8/8/2003
Sam has posted a link to an Interoperability page at Microsoft that contains a lot of information on COM Interop.
Read more 8/4/2003
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 8/1/2003
I completely agree with Frans in his latest post.
After having used Unit Testing for the last several years, it...
Read more 7/29/2003
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 7/25/2003
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 7/24/2003
Ingo has a case (an article and examples) for why Sealed is sometimes needed.
Read more 7/22/2003
Get the latest .Net Reflector version (3.3.0.0) that was released July 17.
Read more 7/21/2003
Don Boxcompares CLR delegates to COM monikers.
Read more 7/20/2003
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 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 7/20/2003
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 7/18/2003
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 7/15/2003
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 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 7/2/2003
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...
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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 6/30/2003
I found this great article on Pair Programming best practices tonight. A couple of key items: the programming pair should have different levels of...
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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 6/25/2003
Great starter info on Enterprise Services from Sam.Check it out!
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More great info on Enterprise Services from an older blog post by Clemens:Great stuff!
Read more 6/25/2003
There are several Application Blocks from Microsoft lately, but the Configuration Management Application Block (released 6/24/2003) is one I have been...
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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 6/24/2003
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 6/24/2003
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 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 6/16/2003
Get the new FXCop 1.21 version for your .Net compliance checking!
Read more 6/16/2003
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 6/15/2003
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...
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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 6/14/2003
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 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...
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