Monthly Archives: July 2004

Today i read about a new Namespace in Whidbey. This stuff is very useful. You can subscribe to notifications when network connectivity changes, obtain information about tcp/ip connections (like netstat) and more… The System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace provides access to network traffic … Continue reading →

lately i have been playing around with VS.NET 2005 Beta 1 – and i must say : i love it. One day with the new IDE and you don’t want to go back in time to 2003 :) While coding … Continue reading →

My Co-Workers here at ERNW are currently working on a book on penetration testing for the german Vieweg Verlag. Expect some wisdom and insight from Enno Rey and our CHO (Chief Hacking Officer) Michael Thumann. I will throw in some … Continue reading →

CrypterPK uses the new Whidbey X509Store and X509CertificateEx classes to encrypt/decrypt files. You can choose certificates from the Windows Certificate Store (MY and AddressBook) to encrypt the file. You can even choose multiple certificates. just like in PGP. I think … Continue reading →

Recently some excellent posts on running as Non Admin showed up on aaron magosis’ blog. His newest toy is a toolbar for Internet Explorer which shows you under what account and security context IE is running (user/admin/power user). If you click on the … Continue reading →

http://www.dotnet2themax.com has web app where you can browse all the assemblies from the .net framework and see what is added and changed in the current whidbey beta…very cool.

i always loved Outlook – but searching in Outlook sucks. Microsoft bought a tool called LookOut to index your folders and to do a *fast* search over *all* folders!!! rocks!

Fellow DMers Bob Beauchemin, Niels Berglund and Dan Sullivan have their book on SQL Server 2005 (the database formerly known as yukon) out. Highly Recommendend! I still thinks that Bob’s “Essential ADO.NET” is THE book to have if you are working … Continue reading →

Jeff Prosise wrote a nice article on msdn mag about making it harder to hijack asp.net session. i am a little bit worried about performance – but hey – you can’t have everything :)

now that it’s official… starting in october, i will teach the Essential .NET Security class for DevelopMentor UK. looking forward to it ;)