Jose Luis Calvo : Development

XML Notepad 2006

joselcs — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:45:42 GMT

There is a new tool for editing XML documents, XML Notepad 2006. I haven't still used it too much, but I'm giving it a chance.

PInvoke Site

joselcs — Tue, 04 May 2004 00:22:00 GMT

I have found a wiki-site about PInvoke. Nice idea from Adam Nathan.

Support of import in xsd.exe

joselcs — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:46:00 GMT

I was trying to create a C# class with xsd.exe from an schema that imports others schemas like that xsd.exe /c schema.xsd and it fails miserably reporting an error like "The datatype 'xxx' is missing.". Basically xsd.exe doesn't resolve the schemaLocation attribute.

Dare Obasanjo's article addresses the problem, and Scott Hanselman had the same problem -and solved it-.

The solution isn't very nice, but at least it's simple. You have to tell xsd.exe all the schema referenced, xsd.exe /c schema.xsd importedSchema1.xsd importedSchema2.xsd

More on Secure Code

joselcs — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:36:00 GMT

Since my post on Secure Code I have been searching for resources on Microsoft about writting secure code. I have found a dedicated page on the Microsoft Security Developer Center, a PAG guide, some guides and checklists, some code samples, the tool Windows Application Verifier, the book "Writting Secure Code, Second Edition", and not in the Microsoft site but related with the subject, a zdnet's WebCast, and a University of Leeds's module.

I would like to know if you find these resources useful and what do you miss.

Secure code

joselcs — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:16:00 GMT

I have been involved on a local focus group about writing secure code. Basically the idea is think about how Microsoft can help the developers in doing secure code, with a similar meaning as the book Writing Secure Code.
I would like to ear about what we are doing well and bad, what is more important (for instance, help in the design, construction or testing phase, samples, guides...), and, of course, what can we do for having more secure code developed on the .NET platform.

Another application for WordML

joselcs — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 06:03:00 GMT

At least the different articles I have read are using WordML in a different way than we are. The main use of WordML is for obtain a set of data in XML. They are using Word as a entry of formatted data.

We are using it for the opposite. We create a report template in Word, attach an schema and save it as WordML. In runtime, we have developed an engine -I hope it isn't already in the Word object model, I looked for it bu I didn't found it :) - that mixes the template and an XML valid for that schema. The goal is to eliminate the forms printed previously to be filled -contracts, for instance-.

Coding Standards

joselcs — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:01:00 GMT

Rido has post a kind of poll about the naming of private members. Some comments on using PascalCase, camelCase, _undescore...

IMHO, the point is to have consensus on the development team. That can be a personal -very subjective- preference, with similar arguments in each case -more readable, more meaningful...-.

What I think can be a strong advantage is to have a tool which can control the adherence to the standard. FxCop is one of this tools, but it basically works with the members of an assembly. Hopefully soon we can have another tool, with a similar purpose of FxCop, working with the source code. A starting point could be Code Inspector.