Visual Studio Face-to-Face battle
Yesterday Visual Studio 2010 was released. This is very exciting, however from the moment I played with very first preview versions I had concerns regarding the performance of it code editor. So today...
View ArticleRSA private key import from PEM format in C#
First of all, I want to apologies for not writing. From one hand, this is not a good think for me to disappeared from development community horizons, from other hand, I am investing all my time into...
View ArticleVideo encoder and metadata reading by using Windows Media Foundation
At 1996-1997, together with Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft released API to work with media content (for example movies). They used to call it Quartz. This was very convenience set of interfaces and...
View ArticleSelf installable and runnable service or how to make generic service and...
Frankly, I thought that one of basic things in windows development, such as “debagability” and “installability” of services, were changed for the last 10 years in development environments. However I...
View ArticleOpenSSL bug or why some private keys cannot be used for .NET
More than half year ago, I wrote an article about importing RSA private key in PEM format into C# RSACryptoProvider. This code was used by me for a long time until two days ago I got private key which...
View ArticleWhat the f***k code
Recently I had to go over some code in one of systems. There I’ve found real gems of production code snippets, worth to share with developers community. Note, that most of this code is not “dead code”...
View ArticleI’m back again–not entirely, but somehow I am
Dear readers, After 5 years in Better Place, I left the company for the new challenges. I still cannot disclosure what I’m going to do (but promise, that you’ll hear about it very soon). This also...
View ArticleInstallation of Windows Phone SDK 8.0 on Windows 7
In order to ignite my comeback to the community I decided to start from Windows Phone development. First of all, I downloaded WPSDK 8 and start it installation on my good old Windows 7 x64 machine....
View ArticleHow to build self descriptive web API [part I]
Some time ago I spoke on Microsoft user group about subject oriented programming and web services which speaking natural language. Now, when I have some time, I can explain how to build your web front...
View ArticleRecursive delete from IsolatedStorage and other time savers for Windows Phone...
As you, probably, notice, I returned to the consulting field. So I started to publish here again. Today, we’ll speak about some quick extension methods which help me to work with Windows Phone. We’ll...
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