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The most common software security mistakes

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:16:02 GMT

Through my humble experience with software development I've seen developers making fetal security mistakes without even feeling that they are doing something wrong. So I've decided to gather these common mistakes in a list so it would be easier to avoid. Through this article I will give examples regardless to the used technology but the concepts applies to all technologies. So here we go

MSDN is just too hard to navigate sometimes

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:41:32 GMT

I have PROOF; You can unsubscribe from events even if you haven't subscribed to them (OR Sometimes MSDN is just too much trouble)

.NET web apps (and ProMesh.NET) on Linux (Mono)... "It just works"

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:31:03 GMT

I was a little curious about how ProMesh.NET (MVC Web Framework for .NET 2.0) would run on Mono (if at all)

Essential MonoRail

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:01:03 GMT

Describes the bare minimum, essential code only, to get Caslte's MonoRail to render content. Visual Studio not needed.

Sorting Effectively

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:56:51 GMT

Shows a trick I learned when you want to do problem-specific sorting on a collection of objects.

The Least You Need to Know about C# 3.0 (Beta 2 Edition)

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:46:02 GMT

A lot of people (myself included) have written about LINQ in the next version of C#. LINQ is indeed an empowering technology. However, even without LINQ, C# 3.0 would be a compelling upgrade. Now that Beta2 is publicly available, here's my personal list of the most useful features in the next release.

Message passing architecture in C#

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:39:58 GMT

A lot of people have written about the benefits of writing software, especially concurrent software, in a message passing architecture. The poster-child language for this style of programming is Erlang, a functional language. In this post I will explain briefly what "message passing architecture" means (in .NET terms), and how I implemented it in my OSS library ErlyThreads, which I am using in the TFSTracker application.

Event Properties - Memory Efficient Events

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:01:01 GMT

Description of how to define events in a more memory efficient way.

What Great .NET Developers Ought To Know (More .NET Interview Question

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:01:01 GMT

Very long and good list with C#, .NET related questions. Most of them every .NET programist should know and/or understand the principles. Very recommended to read to everyone. Here some answers: http://www.mwilliams.info/archives/005937.php

How to increase application scalability using Plugin Support

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:01:02 GMT

This article discusses implementation details of how to support loading Assemblies in different App-Domains in run time, also how to control the execution and crashes.

What is a collection?

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:01:01 GMT

Mads Torgersen has an intriguing new post on LINQ, collections and collection initializers. Mads is the language PM in the C# group at Microsoft and has a deep understanding of this subject.

Performance of foreach vs. List.ForEach

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:01:02 GMT

Today I was iterating a List<int> using a foreach-loop and feeling a bit smug in knowing how much more performance-conscious I was being than if I'd tried doing the same thing with an ArrayList filled with ints. Thanks to the wonder of generics, the C# compiler neatly avoids numerous boxing operations by using a System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerator<int> instance instead of the older System.Collections.IEnumerator. Then I got to thinking: "is this really the fastest way?" Upon investigation, it turns that, no, it isn't the fastest way.