Tag: .NET

CliSecure .NET Obfuscator Product Review Forward .NET assemblies are (in general) remarkably easy to decompile and obtain reasonably intelligible source code.  A .NET obfuscator can be run as a post-build…

You can go download DotNetOpenAuth v3.4 today.  Highlights of the new version include: Support for Google Apps for Domains issued OpenIDs.  This required special work since Google has their own…

It’s been nearly six months since v3.2 was released.  So what’s in v3.3 that took so long to bake?  Well, a lot of it was waiting for and getting used…

DotNetOpenAuth v3.2 just came off the presses.  Lots of feature work and a few interop fixes in this release.  The biggest highlights being: Very simple story for both RPs and…

ILMerge is an excellent tool for “linking” multiple assemblies into one.  But one of its switches, /keyfile:, which allows it to sign the resulting merged assembly, only accepts .snk files. …

If you’re already familiar with generator methods and want to jump to intelligent caching of their results, skip further down in this blog post. In C#, generator methods are methods…

For some reason Microsoft defined URI escaping twice: Uri.EscapeDataString and HttpUtility.UrlEncode seem to cover the same need. There’s another pair: Uri.EscapeUriString and HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode which again seem to be redundant with…

Download it now. Previously named DotNetOpenId in its v1.x and 2.x releases, the v3.0 release is rechristened DotNetOpenAuth to reflect its support for multiple authentication and authorization protocols.  Sporting OpenID,…

The blessing and curse of open source is that the source can be easily changed.  Internal types and members don’t need to be backward compatible with previous versions. This makes…

DotNetOpenAuth, previously named DotNetOpenId, is getting nearer to its major 3.0 release.   With beta 2, we have a security reviewed, feature complete library for .NET use of the OAuth and…