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Patch For ASP.NET Vulnerability Available
Microsoft has published a Security Advisory (2416728) about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET on Saturday, September 18th. This vulnerability exists in all versions of ASP.NET and was publically disclosed late Friday at a security conference. Scott...

Posted Wed, Sep 29 2010 0:54 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

C# 4.0: COM Interop Improvements
Dynamic resolution as well as named and optional arguments greatly improve the experience of interoperating with COM APIs such as Office Automation Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs) . But, in order to alleviate even more COM Interop development, a few...

Posted Mon, Apr 19 2010 1:59 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

C# 4.0: Dynamic Programming
The major feature of C# 4.0 is dynamic programming. Not just dynamic typing, but dynamic in broader sense, which means talking to anything that is not statically typed to be a .NET object. Dynamic Language Runtime The Dynamic Language Runtime ( DLR )...

Posted Sun, Apr 18 2010 19:45 by Paulo Morgado | 2 comment(s)

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments
Like I mentioned in my last post , exposing publicly methods with optional arguments is a bad practice (that’s why C# has resisted to having it, until now). You might argument that your method or constructor has to many variants and having ten or more...

Posted Sun, Apr 18 2010 2:11 by Paulo Morgado | 4 comment(s)

C# 4.0: Named And Optional Arguments
As part of the co-evolution effort of C# and Visual Basic , C# 4.0 introduces Named and Optional Arguments . First of all, let’s clarify what are arguments and parameters : Method definition parameters are the input variables of the method. Method call...

Posted Fri, Apr 16 2010 2:07 by Paulo Morgado | 2 comment(s)

C# 4.0: Covariance And Contravariance In Generics Made Easy
In my last post , I went through what is variance in .NET 4.0 and C# 4.0 in a rather theoretical way. Now, I’m going to try to make it a bit more down to earth. Given: class Base { } class Derived : Base { } Such that: Trace .Assert( typeof ( Base ).IsClass...

Posted Thu, Apr 15 2010 0:50 by Paulo Morgado | 2 comment(s)

C# 4.0: Covariance And Contravariance In Generics
C# 4.0 (and .NET 4.0) introduced covariance and contravariance to generic interfaces and delegates. But what is this variance thing? According to Wikipedia , in multilinear algebra and tensor analysis, covariance and contravariance describe how the quantitative...

Posted Tue, Apr 13 2010 2:25 by Paulo Morgado | 3 comment(s)