All about RSA key formats
I’ve spent the past few weeks building up the PCLCrypto library which targets .NET Framework, Windows Store (WinRT), Windows Phone (WP8), Silverlight (SL), Xamarin.Android (XA) and Xamarin.iOS (XI). What started…
Update on the secure messaging IronPigeon protocol and the Dart application
In my last post I mentioned I was focusing my attention on the IronPigeon protocol. Since then, the IronPigeon project has matured and added support for both iOS and Android…
Moving on… DotNetOpenAuth in search for new project leaders
Disclosure and disclaimer: I am a software engineer at Microsoft, but the following post (just like all other posts on this blog) is my own and in no way represents…
DotNetOpenAuth ships with Visual Studio 2012
Some of you may have already heard the announcement on .NET Rocks (time index 41:30), but in case you haven’t: Visual Studio 2012 will include DotNetOpenAuth in all its ASP.NET…
GC pressure series: hidden boxing
Last time we talked about GC pressure from enumerating collections using their interfaces rather than their concrete types. It turns out that the garbage produced by using the interfaces is…
GC pressure series: Introduction and enumerators
As you may already know, I’m a Microsoft developer who works on Visual Studio. Improved performance and responsiveness is a major goal for the 2012 release. As much of the…
A brief survey of the various .NET unit test frameworks
In summary, someone please fix NUnit to support async task methods. MSTest Pros: Best IDE experience for VS2010 and earlier (VS 2012 supports MSTest and other frameworks equally). Cons: It…
How to get meld working with git on Windows
Inspired by these instructions, I followed these steps: Install Python 2.6 Install PyGTK All-in-one installer Install meld Then you need to configure git to be able to find and invoke…
Immutable collections with mutable performance
In my last post, I detailed the differences among read/write, read only, frozen and immutable collection types. I described how immutable collections come with a hit to the garbage collector…
Read only, frozen, and immutable collections
The topics of immutability and functional programming has fascinated me lately. Mostly because of my work on the Visual Studio Common Project System (CPS) which is a large, highly multi-threaded…