Contents tagged with VB.NET
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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.
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How to setup debugging and deploying from VS.NET to a Windows CE device over ActiveSync
To get the ActiveSync connection you must:
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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.
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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 ;-)
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Manual Express Downloads are now live
This is great news!!!
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Generics Whitepaper for VB 2005
Just saw a reference to a new Msdn article on Generics in VB on Duncan MacKenzie's and Paul Vick's blog:
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Logged my first bug in the Product Feedback Center
This morning while I was messing around in VWD I noticed that the VB Comment feature had not been implemented. This is where the Product Feedback Center is cool; I logged in and wrote up a defect against the product :-)
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Visual Web Developer Express Edition FAQ
Visual Web Developer Express (VWD) is a lightweight tool for building ASP.NET applications and WebServices.
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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 to implement:
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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 load and Invoke the entry point of the bootstrap application - so I spent until the wee hours trying to get all kinds of Reflective incantations to work. I could get Assembly.Load to work quite simply: