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• Time for the next wave of hashing functions?

  As Eli just blogged , it appears as though the vultures are circling some of the current hashing algorithms - MD4, MD5, and now SHA1. This weekend on the Readify in-house tech-list we've been having quite a lengthy in-house discussion about this topic... Posted Feb 21 2005, 07:03 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: VB.NET, C#

• How to setup debugging and deploying from VS.NET to a Windows CE device over ActiveSync

  To get the ActiveSync connection you must: Open the ActiveSync program on your development machine Start your Windows CE device Choose File/Get Connected on the ActiveSync program on your development machine while the device is starting. You must have... Posted Feb 11 2005, 10:42 AM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: VB.NET, C#

• COM+ registration and permission errors

  If you are using EnterpriseServices (COM+) from a web application you need to make sure that you manually register your components with COM+ when deploying your app. If you don't register your services with COM+ then, when you run your application for... Posted Nov 10 2004, 02:36 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: VB.NET, C#, Web Forms

• How to study for an MS certification exam

  Today the question was asked about techniques used when studying for MS certification exams. I've passed a few of them so, here's my secret ;-) When studying for MS Exams I... First read the books: Web Exam Windows Exam Services Exam The books are great... Posted Nov 09 2004, 09:24 AM by digory with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: VB.NET, C#, Windows Forms, Web Forms, Community

• Manual Express Downloads are now live

  This is great news!!! http://weblogs.asp.net/express/archive/2004/07/09/178691.aspx Thanks for listening :-) Posted Jul 10 2004, 10:40 AM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: VB.NET, C#, Community, Whidbey

• Visual Web Developer Express Edition FAQ

  Visual Web Developer Express (VWD) is a lightweight tool for building ASP.NET applications and WebServices. What is VWD? http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=11639 Where can I get VWD? http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vwd/default.aspx What... Posted Jun 30 2004, 11:22 AM by digory with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: VB.NET, C#, Windows Forms, Web Forms, Community, Whidbey

• Lately I've had fun building different kinds of features

  I've been fortunate enough to get to play with some interesting technologies of late due to some different types of features that I've been required to deliver. We've got a WinForms client which is a front-end to a BI application and lately we've had... Posted Jun 27 2004, 11:39 AM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: VB.NET, C#, Windows Forms

• Dynamically running an Assembly in a separate process (with your tail between your legs)

  I'm currently building an application updater tool which needs to receive an arbitrary list of assemblies, calculate which one is the bootstrapper and exectute it. I had it in my head that I would need to create an AppDomain and then use reflection to... Posted Jun 08 2004, 09:36 AM by digory with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: VB.NET, C#

• Building Msi's is NOT a no-brainer

  Having spent the greater part of last week writing a complex .msi installer I was heartened to see a nice listing of Msi tasks which are non-trivial to implement pop-up today: http://weblogs.asp.net/astebner/archive/2004/06/06/149713.aspx Here's some... Posted Jun 07 2004, 02:03 PM by digory with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: VB.NET, C#

• NullReferenceException = LoadFromFile( ... ) ;

  The other day I was trying to fix a problem on a website. The problem was that, whenever I tried to load a file from the filesystem, I received a NullReferenceException being thrown from "GdipLoadImageFromFile"! Anyways, I got straight onto Justin Rogers... Posted May 17 2004, 08:26 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: VB.NET, C#, Web Forms