Code rant

If you spend any time working with Web Services or even just XML, you'll inevitably come into contact with XSD.exe and WSDL.exe , they ...

As Steve McConnel says in Code Complete , Managing complexity is the fundamental imperative of any software developer, but how do you do t...

I've been quite pleasantly surprised recently how easy it is to do impersonation in .net. The trick is a win32 api function that's n...

A while back I blogged about AzMan , a tool for managing operation level permissions that's supplied with Windows Server 2003. Recently ...

I am. Being a native English speaker leads to a number of pathologies, the the most obvious one is our inability to speak foreign languages....

As I said before , I've been getting very into the idea (if not the practice) of functional programming recently, so I was really excite...

Web services are all about communicating with XML messages. The great benefit of XML is that it is a platform neutral technology. These mess...

I had to compare two xml files today. This is trickier than you would at first think. Luckily Microsoft has a neat tool, XmlDiff that make...

Have you ever worked on one of those projects where everything is a huge XML document and the code is littered with string literals contain...

Here's a couple of techniques I learnt a while back to do add two important capabilities to your objects; compute a hash code and execu...