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 uint cbLength) { ppBuffer = myBuffer; …...

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 doing an HTTPS connection. The SMTP protocol requires...

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 if they not only show the solution to a...

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 class (which would have made my life easier). I...

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 nudge I needed to get started. By the way, if you...