Kenny Kerr

A new version of the C++/CLI language specification was posted today. You can download it here. After reading my article on C++/CLI, you may want to keep an eye on this document for more information on the language design.

I'm in the process of moving our website from Yahoo's hosting service to http://www.easerve.com. Unfortunately www.kennyandkarin.com won't be available for a day or two. Yahoo cut the service earlier than expected.

I just noticed that my colleague and friend, John Stetic, just started blogging and they have some exciting news.

My latest article is now live on MSDN. It should be headlined on the Visual C++ Developer Center soon.

There are some subtle differences in how C++ and C# handle namespaces and scope. I have had a few people ask me about it so I thought I would talk about it here. First the basics: a namespace allows you to group names in your program together to provide some context for them and to avoid conflicts with names declared in other namespaces. How you actually make use of names and namespaces in C++ and C# differ quite a bit.

I just noticed that MSDN has translated my security article into German...

Writing code to deal with password-based credentials can introduce many subtle bugs into your code. Having a good understanding of credentials is important in writing robust and correct code, not to mention secure code. In this piece I will focus on what makes up a set of credentials and how you should interpret them as a provider and consumer of credentials.

Every so often I need to convert one or more characters to their numeric equivalents. This can be especially painful when dealing with Unicode characters. So I wrote a little tool called the Character Disassembler to help out.