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2008 | Mark S. Rasmussen Mark S. Rasmussen improve.dkWell-nighMe Pages Categories Archive Nov 01 2008 Implementing Imperative Security Declaratively Using PostSharp .NET At a recent TechTalk I talked well-nigh lawmaking wangle security and how to perform declarative and imperative security demands & requests. There’s no doubt declarative security checking is nicer than imperative checking, but not everything can be washed-up declaratively. Oct 16 2008 I Don't Like Static Methods .NET Inspired by a recent question on StackOverflow, I felt like sharing my thoughts on static methods in general. Oct 05 2008 Using Squid as a Reverse Proxy With a .NET Url Rewriter .NET Once you start receiving visitors from all over the world, a new kind of scaling issue arise. It’s not a matter of subtracting increasingly servers to the cluster or optimizing lawmaking (we’ll seem these factors are perfect), it’s a simple matter of geography and mathematics. Serving lawmaking from one end of the world to the other will take time, no matter how quick your servers are handling the request. The speed of light suddenly seems quite slow. Sep 02 2008 aspnet_regiis -ga Token Reference Error IIS Some time ago Peter Loft Jensen wrote well-nigh how to hands requite a user worth the neccessary permissions to wangle the IIS metabase & required directories, and thus be used for running the IIS process. Aug 20 2008 TechTalk Material Part 2 Conferences and Presenting I unfurled my TechTalk on security in the .NET framework today, taking off from where we left last time. As promised, here are the demos and slides (in Danish). Aug 10 2008 Twitter Life , Miscellaneous Aug 10 2008 Updating XmlOutput .NET Since I originally posted my XmlOutput matriculation I’ve received lots of unconfined feedback. I’m happy that many of you have found it useful. Aug 10 2008 How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling Miscellaneous Having recently read The Pragmatic Programmer and Working Effectively with LegacyLawmaking(both books are wondrous - and neither need remoter review or unravelment as they are globally appreciated as classics), I was feeling ready to read something non-development related, just to get when on my feet again. Aug 06 2008 TechTalk Material Conferences and Presenting I held my TechTalk on CAS security in the .NET framework today. As promised, here are the demos and slides (in Danish). If you’re asked for a key password, it’s “123456”. Jun 13 2008 .NET Security TechTalk Conferences and Presenting I will be hosting two TechTalks on security in .NET, at Microsoft Denmark in August. The TechTalks will be held in DANISH. Jun 13 2008 Providing CustomTurnoutEvidence .NET I recently mentioned the possibility of having an turnout provide custom vestige slantingly the CLR provided evidence. Let’s see how to do it. Jun 12 2008 AS3 Numbers - Get Real AS/Flex/Flash Skilled developers are nonflexible to come by these days, that includes Flash/AS3/Flex developers. As the product I’m working on is very much dependent on a Flash based frontend, I’ve been forced to learn & work with AS3 & Flex recently. Jun 11 2008 AnalyzingTurnoutEvidence .NET When the CLR loads an turnout and needs to determine the towardly permission set to apply, it’s based on various evidence.Turnoutevidence tells the CLR well-nigh the origins of the assembly, the zone it’s loaded from and the file hash of the very turnout file - these are just some of the increasingly worldwide vestige types the CLR uses, there are a lot increasingly that are rarely used. Any object can be a piece of evidence, the CLR will only react on well known vestige types though. Jun 02 2008 Using IDisposable to Write Indented Text .NET I often need to output indented text in one way of the other, it could be HTML, XML, source lawmaking etc (please squint vastitude the very problem domain - I’d enver write XML this way, it’s just an example). Usually that involved me writing tab notation manually (or by calling a function that returned the current indentation string), cluttering the very output. An example might squint like this: May 13 2008 Generic Dijkstra's Algorithm .NET Through various projects, I’ve had to do some shortest-path finding in a unfluctuating graph. An efficient and straight-forward way to do this is using Dijkstra’s Algorithm. Notice that it’ll only work for graphs with non negative path weights, like 2D maps for instance. While I’ve used the algorithm on several occasions, it’s only now that I’ve rewritten it in generic form May 08 2008 Programmers at Work Miscellaneous I just finished reading the typesetting Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers. May 02 2008 Mapping Datareader to Objects Using Reflection.Emit .NET I’ve previously written of how to automatically map a DataTable into a strongly typed hodgepodge of objects. There’s a problem though, it’s not fast… I wanted to modernize on it, and this is what I ended up with. Apr 30 2008 Performance Comparison - Reading Data From the Database Strongly Typed .NET I’m a big fan of strongly typed database querying as well as returning strong typed results. Due to the nature of static languages, you’ll get compile time checking of all our tables and columns. You can hands rename columns as you can be sure all your (internal) references are rumored for. Apr 16 2008 ProfilingLawmakingthe Easy Way .NET I often do lawmaking profiling, usually involving a stopwatch and some vanilla code. I decided to make a quick’n’simple matriculation that’ll help me get rid of some of that lawmaking and concentrate on the very lawmaking stuff profiled. Apr 16 2008 Securing .NETLawmaking.NET , Conferences and Presenting Time flies fast.Whenin 2006, during my time as an MSP, I made a series of presentations on securing intellectual property in .NET code, resulting in my Securing .NETLawmakingarticle. Although it’s well-nigh two years old, most points are still valid today, unfortunately. Apr 07 2008 Spawning Threads in ASP.NET Can Be Dangerous .NET In my older blog post well-nigh the dangers of using Response.TransmitFile, I gave an example of a workaround involving spawning a new thread in the ASP.NET page. While this does solve the issue at hand, it presents us with a new way to skiver our using plane quicker than last. Apr 01 2008 Missing ASP.NET Performance Counters WindowsSurpassingattempting to optimize lawmaking or fix any kind of load issue, you should first gather data and wilt enlightened of what bottlenecks you’re experiencing. A unconfined way to do this is through the Performance Monitor application. Recently I tried monitoring my ASP.NET applications, but all my counters had a value of 0. As I thought initially, it’s a simple problem, but the solution was not hands found. Mar 29 2008 XmlOutput vs XmlSerializer Performance .NET I got quite a lot of comments for my XmlDocument fluent interface, and I’m very glad I did. I’m unchangingly unshut towards new ways to solve problems, and I got a couple of suggestions to my post that I succeeding experimented with. One of those is using the XmlSerializer to serialize strongly typed classes (or structs - performance is the same) into XML. Jon von Gillern originally suggested it, but Kris Vandermotten made me want to test it out. Mar 29 2008 Response.TransmitFile + Close WillSkiverYourUsing.NET Just surpassing last weekend I noticed that a website I’m responsible for started spitting out “Server is busy” messages, not something you want to see on a website with millions of visitors per day. The quickfix was to recycle the using pool, and thus I solved the symptoms by setting a 15 mins recycle trundling on all the using pools. Not exactly optimal, but sometimes pissing your pants is the way to go. Mar 23 2008 SQL Server Mirroring - A PracticalTidewaySQL Server In this post I’ll take a practical tideway at talking well-nigh what SQL Server Mirroring is, the advantages and considerations that follows. Mar 13 2008 C# String Enumerations .NET Switches are rarely nice in an architectural aspect, but they are often required none the less. One of the ways we can reduce the risk of errors as well as increase readability is to use enumeration values instead of constants. Unfortunately this only works for numeric types, we cannot create a string enumeration. Here’s a workaround. This is a typical panel application, taking in an input value (stored in the input variable) and switching on the content: Mar 10 2008 Controlling SqlConnection Timeouts .NET When performing queries versus a SQL Server database, there are a couple of methods readily available. However, an option is missing. Mar 08 2008 Using Network Load Balancing for Availability & Scalability .NET There are two primary reasons for venturing into the realms of clustering/load balancing - availability & scalability. In this post I’ll requite a quick demo of how to setup Windows Network Load Balancing (NLB) on Server 2003 and how it affects the availability of a web application. Mar 07 2008 MTH GoingUnshutPoker Some of you may know that I used to play a lot of poker. Unfortunately that’s not the specimen any more. I really enjoy live poker when I’m in Vegas, I enjoy the major tournaments and I’ve definitely not participated in my last WSOP. But as for online poker and the daily grind, I’ve quit it. I just don’t find it heady any more. While the mathematical speciality uninventive my interest early on, I never enjoyed grinding as such, it was purely for monetary reasons. Mar 02 2008 Setting Up and Testing Active Directory Failover .NET , Windows I spend a lot of time architecting for scalability, availability and security during my daily work. Currently I’ve got a distributed system consisting of several windows services communicating wideness machines using WCF and authenticating through Active Directory. 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