Contents tagged with .NET General
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Semantic Logging Extensibility and Reactive Extensions (Rx)
If you already played with new Semantic Logging Application Block which I strongly recommend if you are using the new typed events in NET 4.5, perhaps you have noticed the wide extensibility provided in both in-process and out-of-process scenarios.
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Your best friend for authoring ETW strongly typed events
So you were reading some good tutorials on how to write your first typed event class but for some reason it may not work as expected? (Or many other issues as well)
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Enterprise Library 6.0 is RTW (and Unity 3.0)
Finally the latest version of Enterprise Library 6.0 (and almost a decade of evolution from the first block).
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New Videos for Composite Services Guidance - CTP2
You can get the latest videos for Composite Services Guidance CTP2 that show many features of this project.
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Extending Web Service Software Factory 2010
If you want to extend the service factory now you can use the new MEF extensibility features which basically means that you don;t need to crack open the factory designer and you can simply create your own VSIX extension and add custom features to the binary version of the factory.
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BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1 Beta
The BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1 Beta version is out. In case you are giving a try to BizTalk 2010 Beta, then you might want to take a look at this toolkit for implemanting an ESB.
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Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2
In case you didn't notice yet, there are new HOLs for EntLib 4.1 and Unity 1.2.
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Broken or missing project templates in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005
After my last system restore, I got this annoying issue when I opened a VS solution with test projects and some other project types. This is basically becasue of the "broken templates" issue. I came across
this post(Update: may be this for VS2010, or this for older versions, or this one for VS2012) that describes the problem and solution which in my case simply fixed running this command devenv /InstallVSTemplates from a Visual Studio command prompt with admin privs (for Vista). -
X509 Certificate validation
Some time ago I was looking for some way to validate an X509 certificate and for my surprise I couldn't find any good method to do this pretty common task. I know that the X509Certificate2 class has a Verify method but is rather limited in terms of validation options and scope. I also know that the X509Chain class can give some good validation but basically scoped to the certificates in the chain and the many options it has may take some time to get them right. Then I remembered that WCF already provides a good and configurable certificate validation API in the form of "<authentication>" element like the configuration section below:
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Update TFS (Team Foundation Server) cached credentials in VS2008
Recently I came across this “issue” or at least something not so straightforward when I needed to use different credentials from a TFS client in Visual Studio 2008.