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WSE Faq

Thursday, December 23, 2004
WSE
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If you have a question regarding Web Services Enhancments (WSE) there is a great place on the net to look for the answer…

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CS2TheMax .Net Inspector

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

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While preparing for some VS2005 lectures I found this nice site which lets you see what was changed in framework 2.0 ….

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Microsoft Deep Dive (Israel) Videos

Tuesday, December 14, 2004
.NET General Great Sites
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For anyone who missed the convention…. Or just want to see Roy again and again….

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Enable Visual Styles Bug

Sunday, December 12, 2004
C#
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Enabling the use of Themes in .net apps may cause the following error:
‘System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException’ occurred in system.windows.forms.dll

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WSE 2.0 sp2 released !

Saturday, December 4, 2004
WSE
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WSE 2.0 simplifies the development and deployment of secure Web services by enabling developers using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework to more easily apply security policy, establish long-running secure conversations, retrieve and validate security tokens and more. New features include a policy framework, enhanced security model, message-oriented programming model, and support for multiple hosting environments.

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PGWARE PCBoost - Great Power Booster For Your Comp !

Saturday, November 6, 2004
Tools
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I've just downloaded a great real power booster utility for my comp !

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The SphereXP - Amazing desktop for your xp !!!

Monday, November 1, 2004
Tools
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The SphereXP is a 3D desktop replacement for Microsoft Windows XP. Taking the known concept of three-dimensional desktops to its own level. It offers a new way to organize objects on the desktop such a icons and applications.

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GMail Drive shell extention

Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Tools
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I've just installed the GMail Drive shell extention and its working GREAT !

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NCover and NCoverViewer

Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Visual Studio Add-ins
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NCover is a tool developed to instrument .NET code and gather code coverage data while your code executes. NCover is an open source initiative located on GotDotNet at:
http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=3122ee1a-46e7-48a5-857e-aad6739ef6b9.
(http://www.ncover.org)

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New Security Risk Management Guide

Sunday, October 24, 2004

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The Microsoft Solutions for Security (MSS) and the Security Center of Excellence (SCOE) teams are proud to announce the release of The Security Risk Management Guide. This guide was developed in order to address the challenges that customers often have when attempting to put in place a plan for security risk management. Commonly, customers do not have the in-house expertise, budget resources, or guidelines necessary to accomplish these tasks.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/secrisk/default.mspx

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Securing Strings

Thursday, October 14, 2004
.NET General C# Security
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When there is a need for storing string securly you might want to consider using one of following methods:

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WSE Deployment

Wednesday, October 13, 2004
WSE
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When you want to deploy WSE project through Setup Project there are two ways to do it:

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TechEd 2004 Labs back online !

Monday, October 4, 2004
Great Sites
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I was googling for some information when I bumped again to Side Decks and Lab Manuals of TechEd 2004.

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Using an ADO.NET DataSet as a Reporting Services Data Source

Sunday, October 3, 2004
Reporting Services
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Learn how to build a data processing extension for Reporting Services that enables you to use an ADO.NET DataSet as a data source through this MSDN Article by Christa Carpentiere.

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Communicating with the Service Control Manager

Sunday, October 3, 2004
Tools
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Sometime there is a need to communicate with the Service Control Manager ...
A simple command line by the name of SC will do the work !

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Richard Hale Shaw On .net rocks !

Sunday, October 3, 2004
.NET General
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Richard Hale Shaw talks to the guys about what's on his mind. Namely, patterns, practices, anti-practices and anti-patterns, best practices, patterns in .NET, the future of C++ and managed code, VB6 as the ultimate anti-pattern, lack of OOP in ASP.NET 1.1, and looking forward to ASP.NET 2.0.

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FlexWiki Shared Source Licensing Program

Sunday, October 3, 2004

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FlexWiki is a new .NET implementation of the Web-based authoring tool known as Wiki.

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WSE 2.0 (sp1 & earlier) - The mistory of error code WSE032

Sunday, October 3, 2004
Security WSE
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For some time now I've noticed a bug while working with WSE 2.0 sp1, it seems that all my sample projects were working fine while my comp. was connected to the net via Net cable or Modem connection but as soon as I've disconnected my comp. my apps stopped working and all i got was the following error:

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Setting Current Process Priority

Tuesday, September 28, 2004
C#
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Someone asked me how to set the current process priority... well its easy using for example :

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Microsoft Time Zone

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

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Microsoft Time Zone conveniently runs in the system tray and allows you to easily view the date and time in various locations around the world. You can also quickly and easily add your own personal locations to customize Microsoft Time Zone the way you want.

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Data on the Outside vs. Data on the Inside

Saturday, September 11, 2004
Architecture
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Pat Helland explores in his MSDN Article Service Oriented Architecture, and the differences between data inside and data outside the service boundary. Additionally, he examines the strengths and weaknesses of objects, SQL, and XML as different representations of data, and compares and contrasts these models

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Extending Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services with Custom Code

Saturday, September 11, 2004
Reporting Services
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This article presents an excerpt from the book, Microsoft Reporting Services in Action, by Teodor Lachev. Learn how to implement advanced report functionality using custom code.

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Secrets of Great Architects

Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Architecture
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Don Awalt and Rick McUmber published a nice article at July Architects Journal.

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Process.Start and redirect to text file / pipe another process

Tuesday, August 31, 2004
.NET General C#
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When you want to spawn a process, but want the process to dump to a text file you might use :

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Evolution of Programmer :-)

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

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High School/Jr.High

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Com Plus Info v1.0

Sunday, August 15, 2004
C#
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Following is a class I wrote more then a year ago when someone wanted to know what is the COM+ application name behind a specific process id, all he was able to get was 'dllhost.exe' and he wanted needed the specific COM+ application name.

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Drive Free Space

Sunday, August 8, 2004
C#
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There are several ways to get the drive free space:

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WSE 2.0 Encryption vs. SSL

Sunday, August 8, 2004
Security
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I was wondering what will be the best method to encrypt communication/soap message between client and web service should I use WSE encryption or SSL ?

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Programming Language Popularity

Thursday, August 5, 2004

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Which programming language is currently the most popular?

Developer.com published the rankings according to the TIOBE Programming Community (TPC) Index.

Programming Language Popularity: The TCP Index for August, 2004

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Developing Identity-Aware ASP.NET Applications

Thursday, August 5, 2004
Security
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Developing Identity-Aware ASP.NET Applications, a new paper in the Microsoft Identity and Access Management Series.

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Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 SP1

Thursday, July 29, 2004

.NET General Security

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Web Services Enhancements 2.0 SP1 for Microsoft® .NET (WSE) just released !

Office 2003 Service Pack 1 is out !

Wednesday, July 28, 2004

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Office 2003 Service Pack 1 contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements. Service Pack 1 (SP1) also includes many performance and feature enhancements to Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003

Several new interesting MSDN articles

Monday, July 26, 2004

.NET General Reporting Services Security

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How to Write a Windows Driver

History returns ...

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

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Long long time ago... Internet wasn't exist... there was a shared network called BITNET and the world of information exchange and messaging was ruled by Bulletin Board Systems so called BBS.

Setting environment variables in C#?

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

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In Visual Studio 2005 Whidbey :

How to ask control to scroll using C#

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

17 Comments

I was asked how to ask control to scroll using C#, Well here is a very simple way :

XML Diff and Patch GUI tool

Sunday, July 18, 2004

.NET General

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Click here to download xmldiff.

DateTime and Timezone

Saturday, July 17, 2004

.NET General

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Another great post by Mark Treadwell is his post about DateTime and TimeZone with lots of sources:

Exceptions and Assertions

Saturday, July 17, 2004

.NET General

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Mark Treadwell has a great post with lots of sources regarding exception management

WSE 2.0 - What's New and Different in WSE 2.0?

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

.NET General Security

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Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET version 2.0 includes a number of enhancements over earlier versions of WSE to more easily apply security policy, establish long-running secure conversations, and work in multiple hosted environments. Some of these enhancements, such as the WSE 2.0 support for the newly-approved Oasis standard version of WS-Security, mean WSE 2.0 cannot exchange SOAP messages with WSE 1.0. The good news is that you can use the WSE 2.0 assemblies in the same applications as your WSE 1.0 assemblies so that a single application can communicate with both WSE 1.0 and WSE 2.0 Web services

Web Service Messaging with WSE 2.0

Monday, July 12, 2004

.NET General Security

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This article explores the benefits of transport-neutral XML messaging, and introduces the Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 messaging application programming interface (API). It will also explain how the WS-Addressing specification allows messages to be addressed in a transport-independent way, and shows how it is implemented in WSE 2.0.

NET Framework 1.0 SP3 and 1.1 SP1 Technical Preview

Monday, July 12, 2004

.NET General

To aid professional developers in planning and testing for the deployment of .NET Framework Service Packs (SP), Microsoft is offering a technical preview of .NET Framework 1.0 SP3 and .NET Framework 1.1 SP1.

.NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1
Tech Preview provides an early look at updates and feature enhancements that will be shipped as part of .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1. It is currently available in English.

.NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 for Windows Server
Windows Server 2003 version of the Tech Preview. Tech Preview provides an early look at updates and feature enhancements that will be shipped as part of .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1. It is currently available in English.

.NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 3
Tech Preview provides an early look at updates and feature enhancements that will be shipped as part of .NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 3. It is currently available in English.

Utility for testing TCP/UDP Connectivity

Monday, July 12, 2004

.Net Performance Tools

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I needed a utility to test connectivity between two machines for several tcp/udp ports.
The requirements for this utility was that it should be simple and wont need the .net runtime.

ASP.NET 2.0 Security Features

Thursday, July 8, 2004

.NET General Security

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ASP.NET 2.0 contains a new set of security-related controls, known collectively as the Login controls.
By taking advantage of the Login controls, you can create standard registration, login, and password recovery pages without writing any code.

Security Guidance Kit v1.0

Thursday, July 8, 2004

Security

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What is the Security Guidance Kit?

The Security Guidance Kit is a collection of how-to information, software tools, and detailed prescriptive guidance within a small "viewer" application. The materials within the Kit are all designed to help you implement security measures in your environment. The topics covered include patch management, anti-virus measures, securing remote access, and blocking unsafe email attachments.

What is in the Security Guidance Kit?

The Security Guidance Kit contains documentation files along with a viewer application to allow you to navigate the documentation. It also contains free software tools from Microsoft, which you can optionally install or copy to other computers in your network.

Who is the Security Guidance Kit for?

The Security Guidance Kit is for the information technology implementor in any small, medium, or large organization. The Kit is not intended for use by the home pc user or by the application developer. Home users should continue to consult www.microsoft.com/protect for security guidance and information. Developers should consult the Security Guidance Center or MSDN.

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

Saturday, July 3, 2004

Databases

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SQL Server Express is a version of SQL Server 2005 is the evolution of MSDE 2000 in SQL Server 2005 It is a free, easy to use, and lightweight version of SQL Server 2005, designed for building simple, dynamic applications.

Dell Latitude touch pad drifting problem fixed !

Friday, July 2, 2004

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I just got Dell Latitute C610 and it seems to have a serious mouse drifting problem, after checking several source It seems that it is long known that the Latitute series suffers from this problem, It is even mentioned at the dell support forum.

MSDN Performance Documents

Thursday, July 1, 2004

.Net Performance

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Following is a list of MSDN documents regarding .net performance :

.NET Enterprise Services Performance

Sunday, June 27, 2004

.NET General .Net Performance

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On March 2004 an atricle about .NET Enterprise Services Performance was published on msdn in this article you can see the performance of native COM+ and .NET Enterprise Services components when applied to different activation and calling patterns. Get guidelines to make .NET Enterprise Services components execute just as quickly as C++ COM+ components, and get key recommendations to help you create high-performance .NET Enterprise Service components

MSDN Managed Discussion Groups

Saturday, June 26, 2004

.NET General Great Sites

MSDN Managed Discussion Groups search engine is available here

Microsoft Script Center

Saturday, June 26, 2004

Great Sites Operating System

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The Script Center categorizes the best sample scripts designed to run on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Scripts are organized by their use, and there is also information about scripting tools and resources.

Fabriq 1.0.4173.4 Released !!!

Saturday, June 26, 2004

.NET General .Net Performance Architecture

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FABRIQ is a general purpose infrastructure for building fast and scalable networks of autonomous nodes for processing and relaying messages. A node is an implementation of a processing pipeline composed of reusable primitive message processing units and/or special purpose message processing units. These processing units consume, act and/or produce new messages as a result of performing their work. Nodes communicate with each other through message queues and they can be organized into queuing networks.

Clemens Vasters, Eugenio Pace, an enthusiastic development team in Argentina and newtelligence A.G. and Arvindra Sehmi Microsoft's architect have spent the last six months building this system because they've seen the fundamental architectural principles behind FABRIQ working incredibly well in a number of real customer applications. Those systems needed to scale dramatically, on-demand and process messages very rapidly indeed with minimum latency and fuss.

What they've done is taken some of those ideas and create what is essentially a reusable framework which incorporates many "modern" ideas about how to build systems that scale and process messages incredibly quickly whilst being acutely aware of the need to adhere to emerging messaging standards, in particular the WS-* standards.

Over on Fabriq's new GotDotNet Workspace you can learn about the architecture of FABRIQ by working through sample configurations and in various simple scenarios. You can download the FABRIQ runtime, design docs and more. Some hands-on labs posted to get you going easily.

Teched 2004 Presentation

Saturday, June 26, 2004

.NET General Great Sites

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Like last year's pdc presentations... Teched 2004 presentations + voice will be available soon here
Everyday more and more presentations are being added to the site so keep on waiting...

Events and Errors Message Center

Saturday, June 26, 2004

Great Sites Operating System Reporting Services

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There are so many times when you see some error in the event logs and don't know what exactly caused the error as the description isn't clear enough... well this is for you !

Microsoft's Events and Errors Message Center lets you enter Event Source and Event ID and get a detailed explanations, recommended user actions, and links to additional support and resources.

Currently the events and errors center supports the following applications:

Windows Server 2003
Windows XP Home/Professional
Windows 2000 Professional/Server
BizTalk Server 2004
Exchange 2000 Server
Exchange Server 2003
Host Integration Server 2004
Microsoft Office
SQL Server Notification Services
SQL Server Reporting Services

Testing .Net Application Blocks Guide

Friday, June 25, 2004

MS Application Blocks

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Microsoft patterns and practices test team is currently working on developing guidance focusing on testing .NET application blocks.

Data Access Application Block 3.1

Friday, June 25, 2004

MS Application Blocks

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The official release of DAAB 3.1 is available from GotDotNet DAAB Workshop.

Performance diagnostic tool for Windows Server 2003

Friday, June 25, 2004

.Net Performance

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Server Performance Advisor V1.0
Performance diagnostic tool for Windows Server 2003

Reporting Services - needed security permissions

Friday, June 25, 2004

Reporting Services

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When you install Reporting Services the installation will grant aspnet account several security permissions.
There are time when you want to run under different account say for security reasons, you will have to add the following permissions to the new account in order for Reporting Services to function.

In-memory XML Schema validation without re-parsing

Friday, June 25, 2004

.NET General

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Daniel Cazzulino posted in his WebLog how to save more then 60% of the XML schema validation time using XPath NavigatorReader.

A Good Interview Question

Friday, June 25, 2004

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Dave Burke has a nice post regarding A Good Interview Question ...

MSDN TV: Whiteboard with Anders Hejlsberg

Friday, June 25, 2004

.NET General

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At Tech·Ed 2004, Anders Hejlsberg gave an informal talk, answered attendee questions, and wrote some code examples on the whiteboard.

Event Log Monitoring with RSS

Friday, June 25, 2004

.NET General

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Greg Reinacker created code to generate a RSS feed from the Windows Event Logs

Calling Code Dynamically

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

.NET General .Net Performance

1 Comment

On February 5, 2004 Eric Gunnerson, Program Manager on the Visual C#, published an article on msdn where he explores the performance aspects of various methods of calling code dynamically.

Reporting Services Security model

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Reporting Services

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For a brief summary of the Rosetta Security model check the following articles :

Microsoft Security Links

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Security

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Getting Started

Best Practices

Columns

.NET Framework Security

Application Security

Windows Security

Web Services Security

Threat Modeling

Privacy

Rights Management

Deployment

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services For The Impatient

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

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Kent Tegels gave a talk to the Kansas City .NET Special Interest Group titled
"SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services For The Impatient"

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 1 - Released

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Reporting Services

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Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Reporting Services includes bug fixes, performance enhancements, and some functional enhancements was release today !

Obsufcation file collection

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Security

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Check out this nice obsufcation file collection...

How to loop through all files in a folder using C#

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

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Someone asked me how to loop through all the files in a folder...
well just a quick sample recursive solution...

Authorization Manager by Keith Brown

Sunday, June 20, 2004

Security

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Using Authorization Manager in Windows Server 2003 you can define roles and the tasks those roles can perform. You can nest roles to inherit characteristics from other roles, and you can define application groups. In addition, you use scripts to modify permissions dynamically, and it allows you to wrap your security logic in a security policy that can be stored in Active Directory.

WS-Security

Sunday, June 20, 2004

.NET General Security

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On April 2003 David Chappell published an article on MSDN Magazine regarding WS-SECURITY - New Technologies Help You Make Your Web Services More Secure

Reporting Services - Hebrew Webcast

Sunday, June 20, 2004

Reporting Services Webcasts

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For all the Hebrew speaking persons over there.... Yinon Nadav Bi Manager at Microsoft Israel gave an Introduction to reporting services webcast in Hebrew a week ago.

Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now

Sunday, June 20, 2004

.NET General

3 Comments

James Avery published in July 2004 MSDN Magazin the following article :

NGenLib: .Net Generics Library

Saturday, June 19, 2004

.NET General C#

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NGenLib is a free .Net library written in C# with an STL-like design that offers generic data structures, algorithms and utility classes.

Freeware SQL-Server administration tool

Saturday, June 19, 2004

Databases

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The solution is Visendo SQL-Admin. With this freeware tool which is built on the .NET Platform, you can administrate your SQL-Server or MSDE very comfortable.

Implementing .Net method timeout

Saturday, June 19, 2004

.NET General C#

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There are times when you want to do some kind of operation and set a timeout to it… say after 20 sec if there isn't an answer let me know… naturally if this operation is a database operation you have the connection or command timeout property that you can set but what if you are dealing with some operation that you don’t have such property or maybe you don’t even have control of…. such as 3^rd party components.

Performance modelling of distributed systems

Saturday, June 19, 2004

.Net Performance

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Programming with Web Services Enhancements 2.0

Thursday, June 17, 2004

.NET General Security

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MSDN Webcast: MSDN Events: Programming with Web Services Enhancements 2.0 - Level 200
July 9, 2004
9:00AM-10:30AM Pacific Time

If you develop Web services, you’ll want to find out how Microsoft’s Web Services Enhancements 2.0 (WSE 2.0) can make your life easier as a developer. WSE 2.0 provides advanced Web services capabilities, including a policy framework, enhanced security model, message-oriented programming model, and support for multiple hosting environments. This webcast will show how to leverage these powerful features in WSE 2.0 and will focus primarily on security.

BizTalk Server 2004: WSE 2.0 and SQL Reporting Services

Thursday, June 17, 2004

.NET General Reporting Services Security

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Fighting unwanted e-mail (spam)

Thursday, June 17, 2004

No Comments

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CAS and Design Patterns

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

No Comments

Maxim V. Karpov wrote a nice article in his blog about Code Access Security (CAS) and Design Patterns.

Who is Locking my file ???

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Tools

3 Comments

Have you ever tried to copy a DLL and had an "Access Denied" or "Shared Violation" error? Did you have to reboot everytime you needed to upgrade a DLL?

Microsoft Word MVP FAQ

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

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Are you using Microsoft Word ?
Have you ever felt the need to get an answer about Microsoft word ?

Well here it is Microsoft Word MVP FAQ ... Great place to start looking for answers about MS Word.

Design Pattern Code Library

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Architecture C#

4 Comments

Some more material for the starter architect....

How to make your website work with XP SP2

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Operating System

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Does your website use Microsoft ActiveX® controls?
Does your website allow users to download files?
Does your site use pop-up windows?
Does your website depend on the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM)?
Does your website use HTML dialogs?

If you have answered yes to any of the questions above be sure to check up
How to make your web site work with Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
as things might stop working as you'll install XP SP2.

N-Tier Application Development with Microsoft.NET

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

.NET General Architecture

2 Comments

While googling for something... i found out series of articles exploring the world of n-tier architecture in terms of the Microsoft .NET platform and associated framework.

TechEd 2004 - Hands On Lab Manuals available to the public

Monday, June 14, 2004

.NET General Great Sites

1 Comment

Barry Gervin posted last week in his WebLog list of links to directories containing
TechEd 2004 Labs.

Understanding Microsoft’s .net Caching Application Block

Sunday, June 13, 2004

.NET General MS Application Blocks

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The Caching Application Block is an extensible platform for caching purpose that supports multiple deployment scenarios.

Recursive SQL User Defined Functions

Sunday, June 13, 2004

Databases

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Patrick Santry, Microsoft MVP explains how to build Recursive SQL User Defined Functions

.Net Code Samples By Namespace

Sunday, June 13, 2004

.NET General Great Sites

No Comments

I love EggHeadCafe because there are so many great articles over there.

Check Boxes for Reporting Services Reports

Saturday, June 12, 2004

Reporting Services

1 Comment

Reporting Services offers a wonderful array of reporting features, but surprisingly leaves out one important feature you find in most other reporting tools: check boxes !

Moving Reporting Services Virtual Directories

Saturday, June 12, 2004

Reporting Services

No Comments

During install Reporting Services uses two Virtual Directories. Currently, these directories can be installed only in the "Default Web Site" site, there is no mechanism in the setup program to change the target Web site.

Erland Sommarskog's - Texts on SQL

Saturday, June 12, 2004

Databases

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After my last post I took a closer look at Erland Sommarskog home page and found some other articles worth reading :

Arrays and Lists in SQL Server

Saturday, June 12, 2004

Databases

2 Comments

Erland Sommarskog - SQL Server MVP wrote a great article about using Arrays and Lists in SQL Server.

Using BlogJet to blog.

Friday, June 11, 2004

Tools

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Today I've decided to check BlogJet , weblog client for Windows that allows you to manage your blog without opening browser. It is easy-to-use and elegant, after very simple setup procedure where you have the choose your bloging engine from nice list of supported blogs:

Asking Questions ... Read This First !

Friday, June 11, 2004

3 Comments

Something amazing me everyday are question I'm being asked that are answered in the first results page your getting while querying search engines (mostly goolge)

Large email boxes alternatives

Friday, June 11, 2004

No Comments

Mischa Kroon lists in his last WebLog post some of the large email boxes alternatives
Thanks Mischa !

WOW ! - WSE 2.0 Tracing Utility

Thursday, June 10, 2004

.NET General Security

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Mike Taulty's published in his WebLog WSE 2.0 Tracing Utility

Keith Brown - a .net developer's guide to Windows security

Thursday, June 10, 2004

.NET General Security

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Keith Brown Master of security has one of his books online “a .net developer's guide to Windows security”

WSE 2.0 Related Articles

Thursday, June 10, 2004

.NET General Security

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SecureCoder, Anil John has published not long ago these WSE 2.0 Related Articles list which is a great startup to know that is WSE and how to use it.

Programming with Web Services Enhancements 2.0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/wse/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwse/html/programwse2.asp
Take advantage of the support for Web services policy, Windows-integrated Kerberos security, addressing, and new messaging models in Web Services Enhancements 2.0.
Using WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/understanding/specs/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/ws-trustandsecureconv.asp
Learn about recent updates to the WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation specifications. This article includes information on issuing security tokens, establishing secure sessions, and using derived keys.

There are also a couple of hands-on labs that are available:

Hands on Lab: Web Services Security and Policy with Web Services Enhancements 2.0
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/A/A/7AA994A0-98E1-42CC-A527-0FE1B49DEB40/HOL-WSE-Security.EXE
Learn how to secure Web services without writing code, how to author security policies, and how to leverage the WSE programming model to secure you Web services. Extract the project files to a local directory to get started.
Hands on Lab: Web Services Messaging with Web Services Enhancements 2.0
http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/9/B/C9B866B0-0787-4CA7-8A5B-92DE75CD7F99/HOL-WSE-Messaging.EXE
Learn how to use WSE’s lightweight Web service messaging infrastructure, do basic one-way and request/response messaging over multiple transports, and build your own peer to peer instant messaging program. Extract the project files to a local directory to get started

.Net Community Sites

Thursday, June 10, 2004

.NET General Great Sites

2 Comments

Original .Net Community Sites was taken from asp.net
(More and more sites are being added... Thanks for the comments !)

Outlook Time and Task Manager Add-In

Thursday, June 10, 2004

Tools

No Comments

Outlook allows you to itemize your workload, to create a task (or ToDo) list. Listing tasks is a good way to remember them, but it doesn't create a plan for effectively getting them done. You have no idea when anything will get finished, what your priorities are, or whether you can deliver work by the required dates. A lack of information results in mistakes and confusion, and a lack of control leads to stress.

This is where Taskline can help. By automatically scheduling your task list, it maps out your future workload, defining dates for deliverables and checking that deadlines are reasonable. Taskline puts you in the driving seat.

http://www.taskline.info/taskline.asp

I was looking for such a tool for a long time... And its great !

Ohad

SharePoint WebParts For Reporting Services

Thursday, June 10, 2004

C# Reporting Services

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Are you interested in collection of SharePoint WebParts that integrate with SQL Server Reporting Services ?

Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework 1.0 - BETA

Thursday, June 10, 2004

No Comments

The Microsoft® Office Information Bridge Framework is a set of software components, tools, and prescriptive guidance that enable developers to create solutions that connect Microsoft Office System applications to virtually any enterprise system or application

Patterns & Practices Webcasts ... I was looking for a list like that...

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

Webcasts

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I was looking for a list of all Pag's webcasts, somewhere I could point a client and tell him here you can surf and learn good stuff...

MSDN TV - Great Place for insights and to meet the people behind the products

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

C# Reporting Services Webcasts

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Patterns & Practices Test Driven Development Webcast

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

C# Webcasts

Test-Driven Development (TDD) - Driving software development with automated tests.

Microsoft's Script Center

Tuesday, June 8, 2004

Operating System

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C# Language Specification Updated

Tuesday, June 8, 2004

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Eric Gunnerson's reports on his bLog that C# Language Specification Updated

Using Smart Card with C#

Tuesday, June 8, 2004

C# Security

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I was looking for a way to use GemPlus 433 Smart card reader through C# and thought it shouldn't be hard to find some samples... after security these days is a main business issue to all of us.

Reporting Services - Links

Tuesday, June 8, 2004

Reporting Services

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As i've been using Reporting Services for some time now several pepole asked me where they can get demos and extentions to some of its features.
Here are some great samples i've found... i will try to gather a storage place and add some of my own too.

.Net Performance

Tuesday, June 8, 2004

.Net Performance C#

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Nick Wienholt regularly writes atricles for Australian Developer Magazine, you can catch some of his articles at his site