When hosted in IIS / Asp.Net and using the binary formatter you might run into an exception saying "BinaryFormatter Version incompatibility. Expected Version 1.0. Received Version 1950887522.2017816692". The issue here is that under various error conditions...

Microsoft will run a series of 64-bit webcasts on MSDN. This 64-bit Webcast Week is scheduled for the first week of November. I guess we have covered everything around 64-bit Windows development and deployment. The official announcement on Microsoft websites...

In a series of articles I am going to talk about creating a card game using Indigo as the networking platform. You can read the first part here: http://www.jroller.com/page/ssge/20041007#indigo_belote

Occasionally I trip over an interesting bit on the 'net that I can't resist sharing. Here's the first one to hit my blog. I find this website fairly addictive. From the site: how does typogenerator work? the user types some text; typoGenerator searches...

Recently I did a talk on Creating a pentration test for Web Applications and Mobile Applications at the West Coast Security Forum in Vancouver, B.C Canada on November 22, 2004. I was very honoured to have received the Best Presenter Award voted by the...

1 using System; 2 3 namespace MS.StrongName.Native 4 { 5 /// < summary > 6 /// Input flags for use with the strong name verification functions 7 /// </ summary > 8 [Flags] 9 internal enum StrongNameInFlags : int 10 { 11 /// < summary >...

I had a comment on the J# serialization post that I took as , "J# is insufficient to entice J2xE developers." J# isn't really about enticing developers "away from" a different platform. [ by my view, that is a pretty narrow way of looking at the world...

The Visual Studio 2005 (ex-Whidbey) team will be chatting on December 15th about the new templates and starter kits, including tips and tricks. -Kevin

Check out this great read from the new TechNet magazine. Written by Jesper Johansson, a Security Program Manager with Microsoft, focusing on how customers should best deploy Microsoft products more securely. He has a Ph.D. in MIS and has delivered speeches...

Very cool tool for SharePoint .... http://www.ontolica.com/English/SharePointExplorer/Home.html " free tool for exploring the object model of a SharePoint Portal 2003 installation. It allows you to view and modify all the properties, including the...

Constanze Roman - Writing documentation for mobile devices Mike Hall took his camcorder over to the mobile devices team and met with Constanze Roman, a programming writer. They talk about what working as a documentation writer is like. Video length: 00...

Windows CE 5.0 was released to manufacturing on July 9th 2004, the new release of the product contains over 300 updates over Windows CE .NET 4.2 - one of the product areas that typically gets ignored is documentation - I recorded a video with Constanze...