WSE3 and ASP.NET Membership Provider authentication
I am not an expert in WSE3 by anyone’s definition. So when I went looking for a way to add authentication requirements to my web service that tied into the…
Why I’m giving up Ayende’s NHibernate.Generics (for now)
Ayende’s NHibernate.Generics is truly an incredible advance in supporting generic collections with NHibernate, and solving the two-way relationship problem at the same time. I switched all my projects to use…
Generating non-pixelated thumbnail images in .NET
The .NET Framework comes with a large set of image manipulation libraries. Generating thumbnail images becomes very easy. But image pixelation, if it were a feature, is turned on by…
C# Dijkstra’s algorithm implementation
I implemented Dijkstra’s algorithm using C# for a Computer Science course. I implemented it in a generalized way, that still allows for optimization by the consuming code. I release the…
VB.NET web scripting client library goes open source
I’m working on a ward photo directory project, for which I needed a web client scripting library. The idea was to be able to programmatically masquerade as a web browser,…
SPSS .NET wrapper assembly goes open source
I wrote a managed C# wrapper for the spssio32.dll library that comes with SPSS. It exposes most of the functionality of spssio32.dll for .NET use. All the memory management required…
EMAR gets a new name, prepares for LGPL
The EMAR project that I have been working on for about four years is finally getting a (decent) new name. NAssess. This is in preparation for releasing EMAR with the…
How I find performance bottlenecks in my ASP.NET projects
Have you ever heard of a product called Ants Profiler by Red Gate? An absolutely phenomenal product for profiling .NET code. At the time of this writing, it runs at…
Microsoft 2005 Launch events in Orem and SLC areas
The local .NET User’s Group here in Utah County (UCNUG) and Microsoft are hosting/sponsoring three upcoming events. I’ll be hosting/volunteering at both of them myself. Here’s a little piece for…
Enabling log4net in .NET 2.0
I am just getting into using log4net, and for the most part I like what I see. It works with .NET 2.0, but it has a couple of gotchas that…