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In a recent blog post by Brandon LeBlanc, the release of the much awaited Windows 7 RC has been confirmed to April 3oth for MSDN/TechNet subscribers and May 5th for everyone else. As I described in a previous post, I’ve been using the Windows 7 beta since it came out. My favorite operating system before [...]

I’ve had reports of people having trouble using the email form on my blog. I’m not sure why this is, and I’ve not been able to reproduce this problem. It could be a bug in dasBlog, or it could be due to the theme I’m using. Until I can confirm/sort this out, I’ve replaced the [...]

I struggled a bit to get the live demo up and running for my previous article on ASP.NET MVC because my hosting provider runs on the Apache web platform, which wasn’t all too keen on the MVC URL rewriting. One of the problems is that on Apache (same as on IIS6), the document being served [...]

Seldom do I use all-caps for titles. This time, it’s merited. I’ve been circling around ASP.NET MVC like a suspicious lion for months. Since I don’t work much with web projects, this has slipped down on my priority list in favor of technologies more relevant to my current projects. But since it recently hit official [...]

In my previous article, I showed how you could embed a certificate as a managed resource in your application. Today, I will demonstrate how you can implement your own custom certificate validation for WCF. There are many scenarios where you would want to implement your own certificate validation mechanics. For instance, it might not be [...]

The MPAA recently published a list of legal movie download sites. Eagerly, I rubbed my grubby hands together and rushed off across the internets to see it for myself. Ooh, how I’ve longed to sit in the sofa and view the latest episode of Heroes, Fringe and Terminator, The Sara Connor Chronicles! I immediately fetched [...]

While browsing Boing Boing today (which is also where I got the inspiration to make this blog theme), I ran into this nifty video which shows some very useful exercises that can help to avoid some of the occupational hazards of being a programmer, such as mouse-arm, keyboard-wrist, coffee-mug-finger (finger stuck in a permanent curve [...]

In my previous article, I showed how to implement custom username and password validation for WCF and how to use a certificate to encrypt the communication (including the username and password). In this article, I will extend that sample and embed the certificate as a resource in the service library as well as create a [...]

One of the many common security scenarios when programming WCF, is using custom username and password authentication. The custom authentication part is no big hassle in itself, but as a security precaution, WCF refuses to send usernames and passwords in clear-text, instead requiring that the communication be encrypted in some way. Attempting to use custom [...]