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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:10 AM

CLR Inside Out: Digging into IDisposable

My third MSDN magazine article, Digging into IDisposable , appeared in this month's issue in the CLR Inside Out Column. It's a bit of a departure from my usual security fare; this time looking at how to best handle writing class libraries that must manage
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:08 AM

Introduction to the Orcas Add-In Model

One of the features the CLR team is adding in Orcas is that we're providing a new model to help enable your application to host Add-Ins. I've got a special interest in this set of features, as I always try to make my hobby applications pluggable for some
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Friday, December 22, 2006 5:00 PM

Happy Holidays!

In an effort to escape Seattle's ... interesting ... weather patterns of the last few months, I've taken off to New York for the holidays. (And unlike last year's 19 degree temperature drop , this year it's actually going to be warmer in the Northeast.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:17 PM

SecureString Redux

A few times over the last couple of days discussion about a tool on the Internet which can attach to your process and dump out the contents of your SecureStrings has come up. If this tool can exist, then what benefit does SecureString really provide?
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Friday, October 20, 2006 11:27 AM

Quickly Testing Code Under Different Cultures

Earlier this week, a situation came up where we needed to make sure a new feature worked when it was used with a non-English culture. Normally we'd run some tests on a Japanese machine, but one wasn't readily available at the time. Instead, I put together
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Friday, August 04, 2006 8:06 PM

[WeddingPermission(SecurityAction.Demand, Unrestricted=true)]

Having just checked in my last few bug fixes and the Orcas feature I've been working on, it's time to take off on a vacation. But not just any vacation ... Tomorrow I head back to New York for my wedding on August 12th. (Here's hoping that it cools down
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Monday, July 17, 2006 11:35 AM

$20 on Double Zero, $20 on LUA please

I spent last weekend in Vegas, and on Saturday night / Sunday morning decided to recreate those college bar crawls with a bit of a casino crawl. Starting a Caesar's we bounced up the strip hitting every casino on the way with one rule: start with $40
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:00 PM

Test Signing in Action: IronPython Beta 7

The IronPython team just announced their v1.0 beta 7 release , which is especially interesting to me because they’ve enabled IronPython to be signed with a test key signature. Beta 7 has four configurations, the standard Release and Debug along with Signed
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Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:00 AM

Adding a UAC Manifest to Managed Code

The UAC feature of Vista is one of my favorite new features -- it really makes running as a non-admin much less painful than it has been in the past. One of the requirements that UAC puts on developers is that we must mark our applications with manifests
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:00 AM

FxCop Transparency Rules

The FxCop team has just announced the availability of RC 1 of FxCop 1.35 . Notable in this release is the introduction of the first three rules around security transparency . Namely, you'll see: SecurityTransparentAssembliesShouldNotContainSecurityCriticalCode
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:17 PM

Return of the Mailbag

Over the last week or so I've seen a few questions pop up multiple times. In no particular order: Q: Is calling a virtual method with a non-virtual call verifiable? A: It depends :-) In v1.x of the CLR this was verifiable. We made a change in v2.0 which
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:33 PM

The best part about today ...

... the availability of peanut butter cups 6 2/3 times bigger than normal . The best part about tomorrow? They'll probably be available for less than a dollar at Safeway. I can feel the waistline growing already :-)
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Monday, December 19, 2005 8:49 AM

Happy Holidays

It's that time of year again when most of the offices around Microsoft start going dark, and I'll be adding 42/2221 to that list for the next couple of weeks as I head off to New York for Christmas. My traditional weather.com check shows that I should
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:30 AM

What Do You Want to See in Crypto / ClickOnce?

Now that Whidbey's out the door, it's time to look at what we want to do in future releases. If you've run into any issues with the crypto classes or with ClickOnce let me know! You can leave comments here or file requests in the MSDN Product Feedback
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Monday, December 12, 2005 9:38 AM

A Look at the Xbox 360 CPU Design

Jeffery Brown has posted his paper on the Xbox 360 CPU Design from the Fall Processor Forum over on IBM's DeveloperWorks. Since I have my degree in hardware design , I always find these types of things interesting. While this paper is at a relatively
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