While I was upgrading Castle Windsor to support .NET 4.0 build scripts, I came across an interesting deprecated API. If you have set Warnings are Errors in your project settings, you’ll definitely get bitten by this once you upgrade your project from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0, if you’re using SecurityManager that is. Continue reading
You’ve probably see on the wild on websites such as StackOverflow, but if you don’t know what it is, it is a single sign-on mechanism that allows user of your website to use his existing profile on an provider, such as Gmail, Yahoo, Wordpress, etc. so by providing this service on your website, you allow the user to login without gooing through all the hoops of creating and validating an account which is usable on a single website only. Continue reading
As a part of working in a Licensing component codebase, I’m checking commercial components to see how they implement licensing and the result, as you guess, is that mostly in-house (read dumb) lousy solutions are used for licensing and trial versioning. So if you see the key-gen for your application spread on the internet a couple of days after releasing a new version, maybe this post is meant for you. Continue reading
I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to get a web application working. The problem was that the web application uses a custom Principal object, implementing IPrincipal interface, but upon launching the application in Visual Studio, a strange exception was thrown. Continue reading
You all know that .NET generated application convert the high-level codes from source language (e.g. C#) and converts them to IL. Basically, if you could convert the IL code back to the high-level language, you’d have the original source code of the application, and to some extent, you can do this, but this is the story for another post. Continue reading
