Rob Garrett - Blogs

Picture this situation:  It's now 3am, start of business is deadline day for development of your project, and you've been working for the last 7 hours on a web service client bug; where dynamic invocation of the service, via SOAP 1.2, causes the server to return an HTTP 500 Internal Server error.  The air conditioning kicked ...

Microsoft has ramped up the security in their latest operating system - Windows Vista, which means that developers now have to pay more attention to certain security constraints imposed by the operating system when developing applications.   Those of you readers who have read my prior posts on User Access Control in Vista (and the ...

Encryption of sections in my web.config file is a task I am constantly looking up on the Internet, so I thought I'd blog it here. -- Generic form for encrypting the Web.config file for a particular website...aspnet_regiis.exe -pef section physical_directory –prov provider   -- or --aspnet_regiis.exe -pe section -app ...

Contrary to the beliefs of some developers, .Net reference types do not need to be passed as reference parameters (ref in C#, ByRef in VB) when a method is going to alter the contents of an object instance. Passing a object reference by reference parameter just means the method can reassign the reference to a new object instance. The following ...