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Looking through some of the new 3.5 stuff I stumbled over a new assembly named “System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement” – that caught my attention. The whole namespace reminds a little bit of ADSI – an API tailored to create user, group and machine … Continue reading →

Writing configuration sections is tedious – a perfect candidate for code-gen. Try this. Very nice.

From now on I will make all updates to the control code available via this link. The zip contains the control itself plus the code for the demo site you can find here. I will also include a changelog in … Continue reading →

I have uploaded a mini site to test the InfoCardSelector ASP.NET control. The site features three options: self-issued cards with and without SSL and a managed card (using the Microsoft FederatedIdentity test STS). Have fun! http://www.leastprivilege.com/InfoCardSelector

Starting with .NET 3.5, CardSpace does not demand SSL connections anymore (see here). Kim shows how to get this scenario to work with “less than 30 lines of code” (link). This involves setting up the object tag, retrieving the clear … Continue reading →

Robocopy has an option to monitor a directory tree for changes – and if a change occurs robocopy will re-rerun the last copy operation. This way you can have something like a “realtime” backup of data. Example: robocopy c:etcsource e:source … Continue reading →

Well – at least parts of it – but this did get your attention, right? Not sure what to think about that. Remember the ILoveYou virus? It replicated itself to file shares to spread across intranets. I think the argument … Continue reading →

Exciting things are happening over at the ACE team at Microsoft. One is XSSDetect – a Visual Studio plugin that analyzes your code to find potential XSS vulnerabilities. Mark also gives a sneak preview of other upcoming tools. Interesting!  

Am 17.Dezember findet die erste Veranstaltung der brandneuen .net@movies Serie des ProDev Colleges statt. Bei diesem ersten Event geht es um ein Thema, das mir schon lange sehr am Herzen liegt: Web Security. Mein geschätzer Kollege Christian Wenz und ich … Continue reading →

…ist der Titel eines neuen Buches vom Entwickler.Press Verlag. Darin könnt Ihr eine Artikelsammlung von Autoren wie Michael Howard, Steve Lippner, Christian Wenz, Darius Parys und mir finden. Behandelt werden Themen wie Windows, ASP.NET, .NET und WCF Security. Das ganze … Continue reading →