October 2004 - Posts

My head-shaking moment for the day

Talk about telling a fascinating story. In Scott Guthrie's most recent post , he continues on with a description of the testing process for ASP.NET. 100,000 test cases? Yawn. 500,000 test scenarios? Sure it's a big number, but what have you done for me Read More...

A look inside the process

For the past few months, I have been working as part of a large team of developers working on the new release of a product. By large, I mean that there are probably over 100 working on various pieces of the code. Going through the process has given me Read More...

When is a cache not really a cache

If caching is of interest to you, don't get tripped up by the default settings in the Caching Application Block. Read More...

Solving the "No such interface is supported" problem

Describes the reason behind and the solution for a "No such interface is supported" exception from within ASP.NET Read More...

Halo2 is coming, eh?

For those of you who are Halo fans, check out the following link ( http://www.techstuff.ca/archives/915.html ) describing what is different between the American and Canadian versions of Halo 2. Thanks to Scoble for the link. And I'd be happy to answer Read More...

Cookieless Sessions and Security

In a previous blog , I pointed out that Microsoft had created an HttpModule that mitigated the ASP.NET cannonicalization issue that was first described a couple of weeks ago. In one of the comments, Amir asked about the security issues surrounding the Read More...

Remove Those Annoying System Tray Balloons

If you're like me, the system balloons that are automatically popped by system tray application are annoying. This blog from Scott Howlett describes how to eliminate them from your life. Read More...

Continuous Builds and Lava Lamps, Part 2

A couple of months ago, the idea of using a pair of lava lamps to signify the current status of the continuous made the rounds. In fact, a blog on Pragmatic Automation description how Curtis Olson got it running. A client of ObjectSharp 's has taken it Read More...

Poor operator overloading (or why I'm an evil developer)

In the project that I'm working on, I had the need to overload the Equals operator for a custom class that was being used. This is a fairly well known problem, although if you haven't done it before, there are enough traps to make it challenging. More Read More...

Automatic mitigation for ASP.NET vulnerability

By now, most of you will have heard about the ASP.NET vulnerability that allows creatively formed URLs to bypass forms or Windows-based authentication. And while there has been a piece of code that can be added to global.asax, Microsoft has released a Read More...

Looking for a few good developers

Barry has already mentioned it here , but on the off chance that there are people who read my blog that aren't subscribed to his, let me reiterate. Things are quite busy here at ObjectSharp. While it's not necessarily accurate as a measure of the economic Read More...

Missing random files while serializing nested classes

One more post aimed at solving the mystery of a strange error message. The situation is as follows: A public class is defined so as to include a nested class. Within the public class, a method is defined that XML serializes the nested client, the reason Read More...