In a recent post I asked if you folks would be interested in this… and today I see that Josh Williams a developer on the CLR team working on 64bit started a blog. A “must subscribe” for folks that want to know WAY too much about the...

I'm currently trying the Amazon Web Services (AWS) with .NET and of course I'm browsing the german catalog using the german locale. The strange thing is that strings containing german umlaut characters (like ä,ö,ü ...) arrived in .NET strings...

Stan answers a reader comment on value types. Cutting to the chase... Having the right Type Vocabulary to discuss Boxed Value Types ... In the revised language, currently under ECMA standardization as C++/CLI, implicit boxing is supported, and the...

Problem Statement: Code Access Security provides developers with numerous ways of protecting their methods from unauthorized or untrusted callers, including usage of caller's StrongName signature to identify it. So if one would like to make sure...

Attend the MSDN Canada Security event in a city near you. You’ll get information on ASP.NET and Developing Secure Code. See http://www.microsoftconnect.com/canada/index.cfm AM Sessions: Session 1: Essentials of Application Security Session...

In Everett, we added a feature to add interface stubs to your code automatically, when you wanted to derive from an interface. To do this simply type out “:” after your class name, type your interface to derive from and you should see a little...

Aussie developer bloggers are everywhere. I got a note from Tatham Oddie overnight who has two blogs - professional and social . I think he is trying to challenge me for the most number of blogs! No way mate - I will win that battle everytime!!!!!...

Fairly frequently, people will want to know how to get same site socket permissions, in the same way that they can get same site web permission today. Unfortunately, the answer is that with the security objects shipped with the framework, there is no...

I saw on Duncan's blog that the C# Team was posting answers to Frequently Asked Questions on their new blog, so I had to go check it out. Wow. They made the first post last Saturday, asking for questions and since then, they've been cranking out answers...

--Making Sense of Database Normalization, Hopefully-- Following is my take on database normalization. Hopefully this simplified version will help your understand of a sometime complicated subject a little better. When setting up a database...

It's been all over the web (well at least the digital media parts of it) in recent weeks about new portable MP3 players shipping with removable Hitachi Microdrives that can be used in anything with a compact flash socket - notably there's been a lot of...

Yesterday I read (and recommend): “ IT Doesn’t Matter – Business Processes Do .“ It’s a good analysis of the controversial HBR article “ IT Doesn’t Matter ”, and also cites others like John Hagel’s...