Creating and using an XML Datasource

Creating and using an XML Datasource. These are assets for a tutorial in the training series 'Working with Data when designing your UI'. Part of the Expression Blend and Silverlight 5 day OnRamp training course. Read more: MS Download Posted via email from jasper22's posterous

Debugging Exceptions in Visual Studio

Debugging Exceptions in Visual Studio. These are assets for a tutorial in the training series 'Top gotcha's when working with Silverlight and Expression Blend'. Part of the Expression Blend and Silverlight 5 day OnRamp training course. Read more: MS Download Posted via email from jasper22's posterous

Physics Platformer Gish Goes Open Source

After announcing plans to go open source due to the success of the Humble Indie Bundle, developer Cryptic Sea has released the source code of 2-D platformer Gish under the GPLv2. There's a mirror on github. Read more: SlashdotRead more: github Posted via email from jasper22's posterous

Cutting Through the 4G Hype

Cell phone companies are about to bombard us with advertising for the next big thing — 4G access. The first 4G phone, Sprint Nextel's EVO, comes out this week. But just how big a deal is 4G? Is it fast enough to warrant the hype, or are consumers better off waiting a while? AP technology writer Peter Svensson looks at the differences between 4G and 3G technologies. Read more: SlashdotRead more:

Managed code using unmanaged memory: HeapCreate, Peek and Poke

In the old days of Basic (starting over 4 decades ago), there were functions called Peek and Poke that would allow you to read and write memory directly. These were incredibly powerful commands: you could, for example, read and write directly to the hardware, like the video display, the tape cassette recorder, or the speaker. More modern versions of the language dropped Peek/Poke. However, you

A C# Version of DotNetNuke

Did you hear the news? You can get DotNetNuke in C# now! What? Say it ain’t so, DotNetNuke has abandoned VB.NET? Well not quite, the release and production version of DotNetNuke is still in VB.NET, though a kind soul has spent some time lately converting DNN to C#. For all the details you can check out Scott’s blog post over on DotNetNuke.com Never fear VB lovers, DotNetNuke isn’t moving away

MDOP error reporting for small, midsize, and large companies

It is time to do a blog post that points to some resources about the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), since we get a lot of questions about how Error Reporting can work better for small, mid-size, and large corporations.  This is part of the Microsoft Software Assurance Program and provide many of the benefits of Windows Error Reporting that IT Professionals can customize.  Part of the

HOT GUIDS - Socializing the Guid

Finally there's a place where people can vote on and discuss their favorite guids.I've built in pretty much all the best social features. You can vote on a guid, see other votes for a guid, adopt a guid, or email a guid to your friends. And if you get sick of the guid you're looking at: with the click of a button you can move onto a whole new guid. I'm trying to really take the long tail of human

JoshDOS

JoshDOS is a command line operating system kernel based off COSMOS. It can be booted from actual hardware and built in Visual Studio using .NET languages. It is developed in C#.Project Goal To create an easy way to create DOS like operating systems.To premote COSMOS, the C# open source managed operating system.Use .NET to create operating systems and just to have fun! Read more: CodeplexRead more

Kyoto Cabinet

Kyoto Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary data and character string can be used as a key and a value. Each key must be unique within a database. There is neither concept of data tables nor data types. Records are

SQL Server: миф дня (1/30) - После сбоя, выполнение текущих транзакций будет продолжено

Всем привет! Сегодня я хочу начать серию постов, в основу которых положены публикации известного и уважаемого человека в мире SQL Server - Пола Рэндала, в которых он описывает 30 наиболее распространённых мифов в работе с SQL Server.  Пол писал по посту каждый день, на протяжении всего апреля. Подобную скорость обеспечить навряд-ли смогу :) но обещаю по мере сил развенчивать новые и новые мифы

Static constructor in C#

Did you ever implement a singleton in c#? For those who don't know what a singleton is, it is a class which can only have one instance, more on Wikipedia. The preferred implementation of a singleton in c# is the following. public sealed class Singleton{   //single instance   private static readonly Singleton instance = new Singleton();     //private constructor   private Singleton(){}   public

ASP.NET MVC Time Planner

MVC Time Planner is simple time planning solution for personal users and groups. Users can log in to time planner using LiveId. There are still a lot of things I plan to do to make this soution also suitable for groups and teams. As I am developing MVC Time Planner from my free time please don't expect commercial level speed of development. I wrote this application for one of my sessions and

New Ebola Drug 100 Percent Effective In Monkeys

A team of scientists at Boston University has created a cure for the Ebola Virus, first discovered in 1976. After setting the correct dosages, all monkeys tested with the vaccine survived with only mild effects. No tests have been performed on humans yet, as outbreaks happen infrequently and are difficult to track. Quoting NPR: '[The drug] contains snippets of RNA derived from three of the virus'

Crypto Soft CSP

Руководство программистаСтруктура данного руководстваОписание API CryptoSPIОсновные типы данных Crypto Soft CSPПримеры использования API CryptoSPIИсходный код приложения примеров Источники технической информацииИнтерфейс Crypto Soft CSP соответствует спецификации Microsoft CryptoSPI. Для разработки приложений, использующих Crypto Soft CSP, можно работать с первоисточником - непосредственно с MSDN

IIOP.NET

IIOP.NET allows a seamless interoperation between .NET, CORBA and J2EE distributed objects. This is done by incorporating CORBA/IIOP support into .NET, leveraging the remoting framework. IIOP.NET is released under the LGPL license.IIOP.NET was born on May, 2 2003, and grew from a small experimental project to a stable and useful application, mostly thank to the great feedback and dedication of

Creating a self-signed certificate in C#

For a personal project involving SSL, I wanted to create some certificates that could be used to authenticate the client and server to each other. Nothing fancy - self-signed is perfectly fine in this case since the client would have an actual copy of the server cert to use when validating the server, and having the cert on the filesystem is secure enough for the task. In any case, I was

Howto: Make Your Own Cert With OpenSSL

Ever wanted to make your own public key certificate for digital signatures? There are many recipes and tools on the net, like this one. My howto uses OpenSSL, and gives you a cert with a nice chain to your root CA. First we generate a 4096-bit long RSA key for our root CA and store it in file ca.key:openssl genrsa -out ca.key 4096Generating RSA private key, 4096 bit long modulus.................