Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

Public Shared Function BrainDump(ByVal dotNet As String) As [Value]

  • I think I'm screwed...

    Well, I woke up this morning, and my entire web farm is offline. After about an hour of investigation, I find out that my hosting company's entire network is offline, and no one is answering their phones. The last local server backup I have is from August 1, and I don't know if I have any local database backups.

  • In Memoriam

    This message is to programmers and people worldwide, not just to Americans:

  • PDR: 10 September 2003 Special Edition

    This warning supersedes the warning that discussed the MSBlaster vulnerability. What that means is, this alert deals with the same problems that the MSBlaster one did, and more. If you're reading this, stop what you are doing, and either download the scanning tool, or just install the patch immediately. Don't fool around with this one. The more people that patch, the less likely another MSBlaster will show up.

  • What to look forward to today

    Well, today is going to be a pretty decent day. First off, today is MS Patch Day, meaning that once again it's time for my Patch Day Review. I'll put together a list this afternoon and post it this evening, Hopefully it won't be as long as last week's, cause that means lots of vulnerabilities.

  • myKB 4.1 Released

    Scott Cate, leader of the largest .NET Users Group in the US, the AZDNUG, has just released version 4.1 of his killer myKB application. He has made some tremendous improvements on the application's speed, and his work is phenominal. myKB is extremely easy to use, and will be powering an extremely significant portion of my company's business for a long time to come. If you have not signed up for a free account yet, you are seriously missing out. Do yourself a favor and go check it out today.

  • Nifty Web Services Trick

    Thanks to Brady Gaster for this neat little tidbit. Did you know that you can control the look and feel of the Web Service access page that .NET generates? Habib Heydarian from the Visual C++ team clues us in: