Tuesday, July 30, 2002

Happy Birthday!. Yep, it's my birthday.  The big two-seven.  Only three more years left to reach my "before thirty" goals. [System.Error.Emit] Happy Birthday Brian, you youngster-) 9:25:27 PM

My talk at the MSR Faculty Summit. Don crawls out of his cave and sees daylight. [Don Box's Spoutlet] 9:23:27 PM

Some beta chapters from Shared Source CLI Essentials by David Stutz, Geoff Shilling, and Ted Neward. On a related note, here's a nice picture of David. [Brian Jepson's Radio Weblog] 9:22:26 PM

CLI Specs Online. The Rotor sources and ECMA specs for C# and the CLI are now available in HTML form, courtesy of Antonio Cisternino and the University of Pisa. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] 9:21:04 PM

Ingo's conference schedule this fall .... This fall's going to be fun ... I'll be at WIN-DEV's Fall Developer Summit in Tyngsboro, MA. October 15 - 18, 2002 where I'll talk on the CLR/.NET Internals track. [Ingo Rammer's DotNetCentric] which is about 4 miles from my house Ingo!! We've got to meet physically-)) 9:20:27 PM

Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) Validator is a small application written using .NET Framework, which sniffs DIME over HTTP messages and validates them against the DIME specification , writing errors into the local log file. The DIME Validator’s purpose is to facilitate development of the interoperable DIME implementations by testing their conformance to the DIME specification. 8:23:56 AM

In ASP.NET, the IHttpModule interface provides notification of server requests, and lets you easily reroute them based on criteria other than browser type or version. Here the author demonstrates the use of IHttpModule for interception and explains the use of ISAPI filters for anyone who isn't yet using ASP.NET. 1:22:16 AM

George Shepherd takes a look at what it takes to write ASP code-behind pages using Managed C++. 1:20:19 AM

The collection classes in the .NET Framework Class Library demonstrate a new technique of providing thread safety, in which synchronization is provided just-in-time via a wrapper class that applies synchronization locks before processing function calls. In this article, the author presents a Visual Studio .NET add-in that generates the required code to implement this thread-safety pattern in C# classes, along with a discussion of the quality of the Visual Studio .NET automation model. 1:18:50 AM

Martin Heller has an excellent article on using P/Invoke's DllImport facility. A must read! 1:02:05 AM

In this article, the author explains how to deploy an ASP.NET Web project using the Web application setup template. 12:58:53 AM

DevPower Solutions have updated their Encryption .NET component to include support for full strength DES, RC2 and TripleDES algorithms. The component lets you use the power of the .NET cryptography API while at the same time hiding the complexities. VB.Net and C# Windows Forms examples are included and the source code is available to buy. 12:58:01 AM

The tool generates layers of C# code based on a SQL Server Database including Stored Procedures, Data Access Layer, Business Rules Layer and Strongly Typed DataSets. 12:55:51 AM