DotNetOAuth source code to be released eminently
Microsoft attorneys have signed off on the open source release of the DotNetOAuth source code that I’ve been building in my spare time. It should show up in the public…
Enable international characters in OpenID domain names
If you’re using DotNetOpenId, you should consider enabling .NET to use IDN, or the International Domain Name scheme to enable users with international characters in the host name of their…
What’s coming for DotNetOpenId and DotNetOAuth
Did you even know DotNetOAuth existed? It’s alpha quality right now but that will change soon. OAuth and OpenID serve two orthogonal needs, and although Google is trying to combine…
NoTrailingWhitespace StyleCop rule, and others
After a period of initial bad taste, I’ve come to like StyleCop. I dislike a few of their rules, and I turn those off. But overall I like how it…
How to use a library without taking a hard dependency on it
First let me lay out the problem: you’re writing a library that so far is self-contained as a single DLL. You want to add some functionality to your library that…
How to cleanly log messages without wasting cycles when not logging
Whether you use System.Diagnostics.Trace, log4net, or any other logger, it’s often the case that you want to allow the logging to be turned on or off at runtime. To avoid…
DotNetOpenId gets a new face
Javier Román has completed his work on the new DotNetOpenId logo. I think he has done excellent work, and he did it for free in the spirit of contributing to…
When NOT to use the C# “as” keyword
Both C++ and C# offer the cast () operator. C# also offers the "as" operator syntax which does almost the same thing and is considered by some to look prettier…
Uri.AbsoluteUri and Uri.ToString() are NOT the same
If you’re familiar with the System.Uri class you know that it has a couple of ways of becoming a string for purposes of communication: its AbsoluteUri property and its ToString()…
DotNetOpenId 2.1.0 released, adds Attribute Exchange support
DotNetOpenId had a double release tonight. Version 2.0.1 is a maintenance release with a few minor bug fixes. Version 2.1 adds built-in support for the Attribute Exchange extension, but introduces…