(above: Robert Hurlbut's presentation on .NET Code Access Security) (attendees above: Arthur Dzehlali, Robert Hurlbut, Carl Franklin & Dan Khrla) Terrific presentation by Robert - his presentation slides and demo code are available at his weblog site . Also present were Carl Franklin and Dan Khrla...

We had Robert Hurlbut gives us a presentation on .NET Code Access Security (CAS) on Tuesday evening. It was excellent! CAS may well be a requirement for all .NET applications development. I have been having some problems with my machines lately - I'll post some more information and pictures here soon...

This is a posting at Paresh Suthar's weblog . I have reposted Paresh's rant here (for those, who like me, are lazy, procastinate and love donuts that make the mouse and keyboard sticky beyond use at times) - <rant> So Microsoft creates this great technology and then comes up short on how to get...

FREE XDN Professional for .NET Bloggers during May 2004 Mike Schinkel , president of Xtras.Net , made an offer on his personal blog of a free XDN Professional membership ( http://www.xtras.net/xdn ) during the month of May 2004 for anyone that blogs about .NET frequently. If you are a .NET blogger, see...

Topic: Developing Secure Web Applications with Microsoft's Technology by Joe Stagner [MS] The Greater Hartford ACM Chapter will hold its March meeting on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 at 7:00 PM. The meeting will be in the City of Hartford conference center on the Plaza level of 260 Constitution Plaza. Details...

Upcoming MSDN Events can always be found on www.MSDNEvents.com or at www.ManagedCode.com Session 1 - ASP.NET: Best Practices and Techniques for Building Secure ASP.NET Applications Session 2 - ASP.NET: Designing and Developing a Line-of-Business Web Application Westborough MA - Next Tuesday: 2/3/2004...

My recent posting (with the convoluted long sentence - thanks Frans :-), needs an update. Michael Earls has some very substantiated arguments about .NET at the present and its future. His posting(s) does express a concern about what's needed today.. I do concur that MS has done a superb job with the...

Our own, Carl Franklin will give a presentation - What's new in Whidbey? - January 27, 2004. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm at the MS Farmington CT office. More details here... The Connecticut MS Developer group is quite active in central Connecticut and the meetings are quite informative followed by pizza, soda...

Back in my Win32 days (~decade ago), one of my tasks was to train/mentor VB developers for VC++. I learned a lot from that experience and was quite successful at it. In quite a few recent weblog postings, I see something similar - the transition from C# from VB.NET (“ the language of choice “ matter...

From the land of Mozart, comes Ingo Rammer's periodic newsletter about .NET distributed application design and development. The just-released issue contains pointers to Remoting stability, reliability and scalability issues and also Remoting changes in .NET v1.1. All are music to a .NETters ears.