June 2004 - Posts
1) Great collection of links at TheServerside.NET which are provided by DevelopMentor
http://www.theserverside.net/developmentor/
2) MSDN Channel 9
This is cool site started by 5 MS employees. This is more like an online bulletin board for stuff happening in MS Technologies. Lots of videos and related discussions here!
Until now, I was not really aware that the XML serializer explicitly ignores serializing objects derived from IDictionary. To work around this problem, one would need to wrap IDictionary instances in a class that implements IXmlSerializable. For more info on this, refer to this excellent column by Aaron Skonnard. But if you look through the documentation of IXmlSerializable, this is what you will find: “This type supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code“. Interesting!
Well, this is nothing new,but I do find the Build Events very handy in C# projects. With this you can run tools from the command line pre-build or post build of a project. One example usage of this is to publish the project binary files to a build/test server when the project compiles successfully. This feature was not available for VB.NET projects in VS.NET 2003 version, but this will make its way into the VS 2005 version.
First of all, a big thanks to Susan for upgrading the blog engine. The blog looks better than ever before and has a lot of new nifty features too (like Image upload, which was perennially non-functional till today)
Sorry about my short slumber. I have quite a few posts in the pipeline. I shall starrt off with my picks of the week.
Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
Another excellent resource from patterns and practices. 1000 + pages of awesome content..
A Threat modeling tool is now available
The Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide
And..please do subscribe to MSDN Flash today (can do that MS home page). It’s the one stop shop for great links like the ones above.