October 2003 - Posts - Yves Reynhout's Blog

XRML vs XACML

Found this post on the XACML mailing list. This is very interesting in light of the fact that the Longhorn SDK (WinFx) will contain support for XRML via the System.Authorization namespace. I sometimes doubt that building NAuthorize will make a difference, but I guess only the future will tell.

Posted 28 October 2003 10:37 AM by yreynhout | no comments

Filed under: NAuthorize, .NET

Hosting NAuthorize

I'm considering setting up NAuthorize at Novell Forge. The project is starting to come along (slowly), but I still have to put in a lot of infrastructure code. I prefer to work in the dark for a while before releasing anything (it also gives me more room to shuffle things around).

Posted 23 October 2003 12:05 AM by yreynhout | no comments

Filed under: NAuthorize, .NET

Security

Today was the last day of a three-day course on Web Application Security (given at Business Training by Ascure). I was familiar with most of the content presented (then why did I go? boss' orders). It was a nice overview for developers who are not security-aware. Amazingly, "Web Application Security" is still oriented very much towards network security (SSL, HTTP, TCP, IP, Firewall, IDS, ...) and infrastructure (Servers, DMZ, topology). A product I wasn't very much aware of is Sanctum's Appshield, which allows you to define which HTTP requests go through (it even has a learning mode) based on HTTP headers, HTTP POST or GET parameters and their possible values, and a lot more.

Posted 22 October 2003 11:32 PM by yreynhout | no comments

Filed under: Corporate, .NET

Typed Reflection

I wonder if anybody is toying with this subject. Lately, I find myself reflecting types and as a result either writing a bunch of utility functions or plain inlined reflective code. This topic sounds a lot like a Typed DataSet, only I want a Typed Type.

Posted 14 October 2003 11:52 PM by yreynhout | no comments

Filed under: NAuthorize, .NET, Object/Relational Mapping, Code generation

Application/Code Generators

Here are the ones I've found so far(some of them are listed @ SharpToolBox.com):

C# Source Code Generator for .NET
CodeCharge Studio
CodeSmith
Codify
COM Express
CompileX.NET
Database To NET
Data Tier Generator
Deklarit
IronSpeed Designer
KickStarter
lgxAppDev
LLBLGen
NCodeGen
NVelocity
Proc-Blaster
X-Code.NET
XGoF