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I recently had to implement IMediaBuffer in managed code. The GetBufferAndLength method takes a BYTE** ppBuffer argument, so I initially went with the following straightforward C# declaration: public void GetBufferAndLength( out IntPtr ppBuffer, out...

I recently ran into an interesting problem. The designer in my team gave me a piece of XAML for my UI containing horizontal lines of the form:   <Rectangle Fill="#FFDADADA" Height="1"  …/>   I put this in the application...

I recently received an email and blog comment from João Almeida, who was trying to use the SslHelper class to make a secure connection to an SMTP server and was having some trouble. After doing a little research I found this is a little different from...

I recently had to implement an ActiveX object (or I guess just a COM object since it had no UI) in C#. There are several articles out there about how to do this ( bing it ), but I couldn’t find much information about handling DOM events in managed code...

I decided to rename the blog. Given that it just started I figured this wouldn’t be too bad. Plus “Carlos’” blog was lacking some creativity. So why “Random.Next()”? Well, I don’t work on any particular Microsoft product or research area so the blog content...

This is a follow up to my previous post , where I showed a helper class I wrote to enable a managed socket to communicate via SSL on windows mobile. It was my first technical blog post and a friend gave me some very good feedback: blogs can be more interesting...

I recently had to implement an application on windows mobile that would talk to a service via an SSL socket. This wasn’t just doing https requests so HttpWebRequest was not an option. And unfortunately the compact framework doesn’t include the SslStream...

Finally, I decided to start a blog. This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while but kept putting off. This week I attended Devscovery and the keynote by Scott Hanselman was all about social networking for developers and I guess it gave me the...