Monday, October 21, 2002

Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.. Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes still have problems in some configurations and some areas that are not supported by the .NET framework. Last week we created a new mailing list to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation. Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC binding. Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This binding is unique in that it uses some features in the CLI to support complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one representation of the types instead of two (the master types is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (shot) simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their configuration to backend keys, following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We will do some polishing of the user interface (new shot) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same time as Mono 0.17. [Mono Project News] 6:18:39 PM

Essential .NET Security. Keith Brown, fellow DM instructor and security geek, is writing Essential .NET Security online - a draft ASP.NET chapter kicks things off. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] I can't think of anyone more qualified to write such book. As Keith has so aptly demonstrated in his writings, talks, courses,  and work over the last few years, Keith has a superb understanding of all the aspects of security both unmanaged and managed. I am quite pleased and looking forward to this must-have book. 6:10:41 PM

Jeff Prosise's Cameo @ the CT .NET SIG. A synapsis of Jeff Prosise's ASP.NET talk... [Just The Facts] 11:37:40 AM

Ethan Brown recently introduced himself. He is veteran of many of our favorite mailing lists and is contributing code to the very fine Genghis effort with some code. He has a new .NET blog. So welcome Ethan to the community! 10:04:11 AM