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Between work and stuff going on in my personal life, there hasn't been a lot of spare time for blogging and developer community things over the last few weeks. Hopefully, that will be changing in the near future. In the meantime, I wanted to squeeze...
In .NET 3.0, WCF did not have any built-in support for syndication feeds, such as RSS and ATOM. As a result, it was necessary to roll your own solution anytime you wanted to render a syndication feed from your service. While this wasn't an incredibly...
Last week, I made a brief post about easily using some of the cryptographic hash algorithms available in the .NET Framework for the purpose of generating a file checksum. After giving it some thought, I decided to do a follow-up post and compare the general...
It seems there are a number of people out there who attempt to write their own checksum algorithms for validating the integrity of a file. However, these type of algorithms need to be incredibly reliable. Unfortunately, the "home-grown" version is often...
I recently took a closer look to compare the performance variations among some of the possible ways to interact with a SqlDataReader object (ordinal position, column name, etc). Before you start telling me that I wasn't thorough, I never intended...
If you have worked with .NET much at all, then you have undoubtedly used String.Format. It is one of those essential functions that just makes development a lot simpler. However, I have found that a lot of people don't realize they are introducing...
I have been doing some work with random number generation this week. Specifically, I needed to write a utility that would be used to generate a strong key for a symmetric encryption algorithm. Obviously, there is a wide variety of approaches to this type...
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