So I'm looking through the SalesForce lawsuit against Microsoft http://regmedia.co.uk/2010/06/25/salesforce_v_microsoft_complaint.pdf[^] and I decided to read the patents in question. With theses patents salesforce could potentially sue almost any .NET application development company. How is this even legit? Error Handling - http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=9qQVAAAAEBAJ&dq=6918059[^] ASP.NET Caching - http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=syMSAAAAEBAJ&dq=6813633[^] Postback?! - http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=04d4AAAAEBAJ&dq=7024454[^] It's absolutely ridiculous.

I read this article earlier today, and as someone who's been a MS enthusiast for a while, and an interested app dev. for all MS platforms, this worries me. I'm starting to wonder if MS can't even deliver the core functionality, then maybe I should focus on developing for other platforms instead.

If you're using .NET 3.5+

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load( "file.xml" );
var authors = ( from n in doc.Descendants( "author" )
select n );
if (authors != null) {
authors.Remove();
doc.Save( "file.xml" );
}

Is it really that different than disassembling a native executable? No matter what language it's in, or how it's compiled, it can be broken down and analyzed. My thoughts are, put a bit of money/effort in to disuade 'casual' disassemblers, and that's probably enough. Anyone who cares enough can crack any application.

What happened to the coverage? I still see little bits, but literally nothing even close to the 'top news' area... they are aware it's still spooging into the gulf right?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0tke9fxk(VS.80).aspx[^] This is the only way other than using reflection.

Ok... nvm... found my own answer. Turns out that I have to set the CacheResults on the DirectorySearcher (that finds my DirectoryEntry) to false. Now everything works immediately!

Anyone know what I can do about this. I'm getting a user DirectoryEntry, modifying an attribute value, then committing the changes, and closing the entry, but on subsequent calls (re-get user directory->get attribute value), the value is the original... until about 10-15 seconds later. I've tried using the RefreshCache method, and the UsePropertyCache property on the DirectoryEntry, but nothing seems to work. I don't understand why the value isn't set immediately (this is a dev ADAM server w/ virtually no load, it shouldn't be a performance issue). Setting:

using ( DirectoryEntry entry = FindUserDirectoryEntry( username ) ) {
if ( entry != null ) {
if ( entry.Properties.Contains( attributeName ) ) {
entry.Properties[attributeName].Value = value;
} else if ( value.IsEmpty() == false ) {
entry.Properties[attributeName].Add( value );
}
entry.CommitChanges();
entry.Close();
}
}

Getting:

DirectoryEntry entry = this.ADAMProvider.GetUserDirectoryEntry( userName );
if ( entry != null ) {
if ( entry.Properties.Contains( attributeName ) ) {
entry.RefreshCache(attributeName);
value = entry.Properties[attributeName].Value.SafeToString();
}
entry.Close();
}

You're interpretation of WCF sessions is incorrect. WCF Sessions are not ASP.NET Sessions, they mean "a communications session between the client and the WCF service" - It's an instancing mode for the service itself, not a storage state or anything like HTTP/ASP.NET sessions. To utilize ASP.NET sessions in WCF you have to tinker a bit: Try looking at this.[^] To learn more about the meaning of WCF sessions: try this[^]

Look into serialization, there are many options -> Binary, xml, soap, etc.

To make things worse, here's other possible terms you could use: {x} Preferences, {x} Settings, {x} User Defaults.

So does having multiple user accounts with different levels of priveledges increase security of a enterprise network somehow? To me it seems like a huge mess since each user has to remember multiple account details. Anyone have thoughts?

Every array has at least 1 dimension, for instance: string[] x1 = new string[] {...} // is 1 dimensional string[,] x2 = new string[,] {...} // is 2 dimensional string[,,] x3 = new string[,,] {...} //is 3 dimensional Each dimension has upper and lower bounds, which in most cases is easiest to think about as a capacity, since the lower bound is almost always 0. The GetUpper and LowerBounds functions help you get the bounds (lowest possible index to highest possible index) for the given dimension, so... Here we are creating a 1 dimentional array with a capacity of 5 elements. string[] x1 = new string[5]; now we pass the target dimension (0 index based) to the function... GetLowerBounds(0) would say 0. GetUpperBounds(0) would say 4. Why does upper bounds say 4? Because the bounds functions are returning 0 based indexes, thus, the capacity is 5, and the 5 indexes of each 'space' are 0,1,2,3, and 4. If we were to do this: GetLowerBounds(1) or GetUpperBounds(1) we would get an exception, because our array has only 1 dimension (thus we would pass index 0). More reading here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.array.getlowerbound.aspx[^] http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/CSharp/0220__Data-Structure/ArrayGetLowerBoundGetUpperBound.htm[^]

It takes a bit of work, but you could code an interface to write a 'footer' that contains indexes of encrypted blocks within the file. So for instance, - you would write 1024 encrypted bytes - then write a footer that says the index 0 file ends at 1024. - when you want to append, read the footer to memory. - shorten the file to that last index (erasing the footer). - write your new encrypted block. - write the new index (1) to footer in memory. - write the new footer to the end of the file. The downside (potentially) is that if you want to remove a file that is not at the last index, you essentially have to rewrite the entire file.

Just wondering, what's your favorite windows forms UI control library (commercial or free)?

I am working on an app for a big company and we have a subdomain website page that is opened by javascript. We want to have the opened page redirect the window.opener when it is closed. The big thing is that the opener is on a different subdomain (same top level domain). Will this be permitted or is blocked by browser 'cross-site scripting'? I've tried a couple methods but can't seem to get it to redirect. Mainly trying window.opener.location.href='blah.htm';

No, you can be independant. Join the coffee party[^] or something.

I knew it was inevitable when RedGate got it... sigh. dammit. Guess I'll have to wait for an open source equiv now.

Based on the code above, you have to click the button twice in order for the session var to show in the textbox. this is because the execution goes in this order: Page Load --You click Button Page Load Button Click

Is code specifically for Windows 7 (through the win7 SDK) ignored if executed on a pre-windows 7 OS? or do you have to do OS version checks before calling any of it? or will it just not run at all?