BufferOverrun : February 2004

February 2004 - Posts

Time to Check Out the New InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP-1) Preview

Posted Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:51 PM by Brianjo

From Tabula PC: InfoPath 2003 SP 1 Preview - run, don't walk, to get it! ...However, it also has one "simple" feature that blows the mind: an elegant way to fill forms using ink on a Tablet PC. InfoPath automatically senses that it's running on a tablet Read More...

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Don Box Got SPOT

Posted Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:27 PM by Brianjo

I saw the other day that Don Box has been wearing a SPOT watch. It sounds like he likes it: I've got a CLI-compliant execution environment strapped to my body Read More...

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Brandon Bray Webcast Tomorrow

Posted Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:05 PM by Brianjo

Just a reminder, Brandon will be doing a webcast tomorrow entitled, Visual C++ in Whidbey: What’s New . Here's a bit of info from the registration page: Features for both managed and native programming give developers the ability to exploit WinFX Read More...

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Anil John Security Blog

Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:58 PM by Brianjo

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Anil John is blogging again. He has an excellent security blog that's well worth subscribing to. Read More...

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Bill Venners Interviews Bjarne Stroustrup

Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:18 PM by Brianjo

Bill Venners has published a 4 part interview with Bjarne Stroustrup on artima.com . Bill breaks the interview out into the following topics: Part I: The C++ Style Sweet Spot Part II: Modern C++ Style Part III: Abstraction and Efficiency Part IV: Elegance Read More...

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Phone Pic from Yesterday

Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:03 PM by Brianjo

I just had to comment on this picture. I took it with my 3650 camera phone on the way home from work yesterday and I was shocked at how well this little thing turned out. It was a beautiful sunset and it's so nice to be able to capture moments like these Read More...

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Gadgeteer Reviews SPOT Watches

Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:57 PM by Brianjo

Julie and Judie review all of the currently available SPOT watches. Lots of pictures and good information. Julie: Wristwatch technology sure has come a long way since my first timepiece. When I was a kid, I remember being so proud of my Buffy and Jody Read More...

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Windows XP SP2 Developer Resources on the Security Developer Center

Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:17 AM by Brianjo

Today we're launching a new resource page in support of Windows XP Service Pack 2. The blurb from the page explains what it's all about: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Security Information for Developers With Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft is introducing Read More...

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Gunnar Kudrjavets on Assertions

Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 10:18 PM by Brianjo

Gunnar Kudrjavets wrote a very informative post the other day discussing how to direct assertions to file or debug output . Well, how to still make sure that assertions will be triggered when appropriate, but not to have any visual side-effects? Fortunately Read More...

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Riverdeep Case Study - Using the .NET CLR from MFC

Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 5:11 PM by Brianjo

Kent sent me a mail about this and it's really fascinating stuff. Riverdeep , the company behind The Print Shop is hosting the CLR in their MFC based product in order to take advantage of functionality provided by the CLR. Here's a bit from the intro: Read More...

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MER2003 Image Workbench

Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 4:01 PM by Brianjo

I caught this site via Dave Winer . This is a very cool way to see the different pictures coming from Mars. http://rovers.habitablezone.com/Workbench/ Read More...

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New 64-Bit Page on the Visual C++ Developer Center

Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 12:44 AM by Brianjo

Today we're headlining a new 64-Bit Programming page we put together for the Visual C++ Developer Center . For now, this page has only a few pieces available, but that's going to grow as this technology becomes increasingly important. The new page also Read More...

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The Five Testers from VC Answer a Couple of Questions

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:51 PM by Brianjo

Here's one: Answers to Comment Questions Is understanding the inner working of a compiler vital to compiler testing? I would say so, at least at some level. In a general sense, I would say it's hard to be really successful at testing anything without Read More...

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Mike Nash Chat Page

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:55 PM by Brianjo

Jana has put together a page where you can find information about the monthly chats hosted by Microsoft Security Business Unit Vice President Mike Nash. Mike really puts a lot into these and he will answer your questions. You can add the upcoming chats Read More...

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Visual Basic Generics

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:35 PM by Brianjo

Duncan has a cool little sample showing generics in VB Whidbey . Very clever. Read More...

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Security Webcast Week Ends Tomorrow

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:04 PM by Brianjo

Just a heads up, there is one more day left of Security Webcast Week . You can catch one of the three remaining sessions live tomorrow. The Webcasts that have already occurred are comming online as on-demand Webasts fairly quickly and you can find those Read More...

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Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start Chapter Online

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:38 AM by Brianjo

Chapter 3 of Kate Gregory's book, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start , is available on The Code Project . This one covers the .NET Base Class Libraries. Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start Chapter 3: The .NET Base Class Libraries From the Read More...

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Matt Lyons on MSDN TV on Code Access Security

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:10 PM by Brianjo

Matt did part of the security talk at the PDC and he's got a new talk available on MSDN TV. He does a nice job on these. Basic Principles of Code Access Security Matt Lyons presents some of the basic principles of CAS - in particular, the effects of default Read More...

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Stan Lippman on the Managed Extension Reference Array Syntax

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:16 AM by Brianjo

Stan Lippman has a new posting on the C++/CLI declaration of managed array objects: C++/CLI revision of the Managed Extension Reference Array Syntax ...This has been simplified in the revised language design, in which we use a template-like declaration Read More...

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WinDbg Tutorial on Code Project

Posted Sunday, February 15, 2004 11:07 PM by Brianjo

Excellent start on The Code Project to a multi-part tutorial on debugging with WinDbg. Windows Debuggers: Part 1: A Windbg Tutorial In my professional career, I have seen most of us use Visual Studio for debugging but not many of the other debuggers that Read More...

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Security Webcast Week Starts Monday

Posted Sunday, February 15, 2004 10:06 PM by Brianjo

Tomorrow starts a week of security webcasts at Microsoft. Developer Security Webcast Week February 16 - 20, 2004 Microsoft announces a special week of webcasts addressing the most important and newly emerging security issues surrounding developers. Topics Read More...

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Update Your PC Now

Posted Saturday, February 14, 2004 1:44 AM by Brianjo

We created a new graphic today for the Microsoft.com home page to drive people to Windows Update to try to get rid of Mydoom and to get them to update their machines. Let your family and friends know that they should stop by Windows Update for a quick Read More...

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The Updated Visual C++ Developer Center is Live!

Posted Friday, February 13, 2004 4:11 PM by Brianjo

We updated the Visual C++ Developer Center today. We now feature three top stories and I'll be able to keep a running list of resources that the Visual C++ team at Microsoft deems important to customers. Thanks so much to John, Amy, Henry, Kent , and Read More...

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Stan Lippman on Supporting Direct Handles to Boxed Value Types

Posted Friday, February 13, 2004 3:05 PM by Brianjo

If you haven't read Stan's blog , start from the bottom and read all the entries. They are consistently insightful and fascinating. Today Stan answers a reader question about boxing: Yes, the need to box occurs only when the source of the assignment to Read More...

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Updated Errata for Writing Secure Code 2nd Edition

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:18 PM by Brianjo

Last week, Michael Howard posted the errata for Writing Secure Code, Second Edition . I was the technical editor on that book and one that caught my eye was was the first one listed: Entire Book Please replace all references to Windows® .NET Server Read More...

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C++ Webcast Tomorrow - Friday, February 13th

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 8:31 PM by Brianjo

Register right now for tomorrow's MSDN Webcast: MSDN Webcast: Managed and Native code in Longhorn – Roadmap for Existing C/C++ Applications Join Microsoft experts from the Visual C++ Product Group on Friday, February 13, 2004 at 11:00 AM PST to Read More...

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Changes Coming Soon to the Visual C++ Developer Center

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 8:20 PM by Brianjo

This week my site managers Amy and John are rebuilding the home page of the Visual C++ Developer Center to include my C++ RSS feed. The site will look a lot like Duncan's Visual Basic Developer Center and the Visual C# Developer Center . These guys did Read More...

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Hubble and NASA

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:02 AM by Brianjo

You've got to wonder what the guys at NASA are thinking (from Wired)... Hubble Space Telescope: 1990-2007 NASA officials adamantly defend the decision not to perform any more service missions to Hubble -- which means one of the greatest scientific instruments Read More...

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Performance and Diagnostics

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 10:59 PM by Brianjo

It's so funny that Steve mentions this page on the Visual Studio Developer Center . Just today I was looking at a similar page I have on the Visual C++ Developer Center and I've got some great new content going up there soon. Stay tuned. .NET Performance Read More...

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Moved to FeedDemon

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:16 PM by Brianjo

Steve Makofsky asks about Sharpreader updates and whether it's time to consider RSS Bandit. I finally ended up registering FeedDemon , not because I had and specific problem with SharpReader, but just because FeedDemon is so darn good. It does everything Read More...

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Jeff Jones on How Microsoft Develops and Releases Software Patches

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:14 PM by Brianjo

Excellent new article up on TechNet by Jeff Jones explaining the Microsoft security response process: Once a potential issue is reported to Microsoft, either privately or publicly, our team immediately begins an investigation to reproduce and verify the Read More...

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Hackers on TLC

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:01 AM by Brianjo

Slashdot linked to a Hacker Hall of Fame on The Learning Channel's Web site earlier this week. I see that this page is part of a larger page for the show Hackers: Outlaws and Angles . There's a ton of great information there if you're into computer security Read More...

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Peter Huene on the Visual C++ Project Object Model

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:28 AM by Brianjo

Peter Huene discusses the Visual C++ project system in this information-packed posting: Exploring the Visual C++ Project Object Model : Properties (part I) For my first product-related post, I want to talk a little about the VC++ project system and properties Read More...

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New Security Bulletins

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 7:04 PM by Brianjo

We released three new security bulletins today: ASN .1 Vulnerability Could Allow Code Execution (828028): MS04-007 Vulnerability in the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) Could Allow Code Execution (830352): MS04-006 Vulnerability in Virtual PC for Read More...

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Updated: What You Should Know About the Mydoom Worm Variants

Posted Monday, February 09, 2004 10:18 PM by Brianjo

We updated the Mydoom virus page today with information about Mydoom.C (a.k.a. DoomJuice.A) You can get the details here . We also updated the MyDoom (A,B) and DoomJuice.A Worm Removal Tool. Here's some information about that: This tool will help to remove Read More...

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MSDN Developer Centers

Posted Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:56 AM by Brianjo

I often find myself describing to people at work (Microsoft) what developer centers we have on MSDN. I think its important to occasionally let people know that these exist and what's available for developers. The MSDN Developer Centers page descibes the Read More...

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Real Player Vulnerabilities

Posted Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:30 AM by Brianjo

I heard about this earlier today and I meant to post about it but I forgot. I was reminded again on Slashdot . You can read the NGSSoftware advisory here . By crafting malformed .RP, .RT, .RAM, .RPM & .SMIL files it is possible to cause heap and stack Read More...

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Russell Beattie on the Smartphone Market

Posted Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:02 AM by Brianjo

Russell Beattie analyzes the current smartphone market and he says he even got to play with a Windows Smartphone. Here's his take on that: And speaking of the other OSes, let me tell you that I finally got to fondle a Windows Mobile Smartphone for a few Read More...

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Solution Guide for Windows Security and Directory Services for UNIX

Posted Saturday, February 07, 2004 1:23 AM by Brianjo

Jason points out a new Solution Guide they developed for Unix/Windows auth. I may headline this on the Security Developer Center when I get a chance. Solution Guide for Windows Security and Directory Services for UNIX Using Active Directory and Kerberos Read More...

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How to not step into a function...

Posted Friday, February 06, 2004 11:23 PM by Brianjo

A heavily disclaimed, yet tasty posting form Andy Pennell on How to Not Step Into Functions using the Visual C++ Debugger Ever stepped into a function you didn’t want to? Like an ATL or MFC CString constructor for example? Or a conversion operator Read More...

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DateLens

Posted Friday, February 06, 2004 10:39 PM by Brianjo

I've seen DateLens before for the Pocket PC, but I didn't realize that there was a free version available for Outlook. This is amazingly cool. Check it out here . Be sure to watch the movie on the page. It explains what's going on with the tool. Read More...

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MyDoom (A,B) Worm Removal Tool Available

Posted Friday, February 06, 2004 8:16 PM by Brianjo

The Mydoom removal tool is up and available for download: MyDoom (A,B) Worm Removal Tool for Windows XP and Windows 2000 This tool will help to remove the MyDoom.A and My.Doom.B worms from infected Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems. Once executed, after Read More...

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Allegiance Source Code Released

Posted Friday, February 06, 2004 2:47 PM by Brianjo

Chis Sells found this nugget from Microsoft Research: MS Allegiance Code Released to Fans Apparently, even though Allegiance wasn't a commercial success for Microsoft, the fan base is very loyal. So loyal, in fact, that MS Research has posted the Allegiance Read More...

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Raymond Chen on the layout of a COM object

Posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:39 PM by Brianjo

Raymond Chen has an interesting post describing the layout of COM objects . It is no coincidence that the Win32 COM object layout matches closely the C++ object layout. Even though COM was originally developed when C was the predominant programming language, Read More...

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Michael Howard on MS04-004

Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 10:34 PM by Brianjo

Michael Howard clears up some of the confusion around MS04-004. Read More...

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Visual C++ Project System Developer Peter Huene has a Weblog

Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 10:26 PM by Brianjo

This should be good. Peter works on the Visual C++ project system (which happens to be my favorite part of Visual Studio): My name is Peter, and I am a Software Design Engineer working on the Visual C++ Project System. What is the Visual C++ Project System, Read More...

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MSDN Chrome

Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:45 PM by Brianjo

We've got an updated chrome (the style of the area that frames our content) running on MSDN . I think it looks great. Check it out and see if you like how it looks. Send your feedback via contact us and let them know what you think. Read More...

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SFU on LinuxInsider

Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:36 PM by Brianjo

Interesting article by Tom Yager on LinuxInsider about Services for Unix : Unix for Windows In heterogeneous shops and homes, SFU and Virtual PC 2004 should be installed on every machine. These two products represent the most important technology to come Read More...

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-004

Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:18 PM by Brianjo

I thought I had posted this earlier, but I think it's stuck open on another machine at work. We released a new security update for IE. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-004 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (832894) You should have seen Read More...

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Virus Signatures

Posted Monday, February 02, 2004 7:44 AM by Brianjo

Here's an interesting quote from the Security Wire Perspecitves newsletter I recived this morning. "Just a few of our users opened the worm before we installed our antivirus signature updates," said Clay Ruth, software systems engineering manager. "Both Read More...

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Newsweek Q&A with Amit Yoran

Posted Sunday, February 01, 2004 1:46 PM by Brianjo

Amit Yoran, National Cyber Security Division Director, on the difference between the effects of the Mydoom virus versus past e-mail virus threats: A few years ago, we experienced significant outages in our businesses from Love Letter and Melissa and other Read More...

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