by Bogdan Varlamov (a.k.a. Phantom Stranger)
One of the great things about .NET 3.5 is that it is fully inter-operable with .NET 2.0. You just have to reference the right assemblies and you can use WPF and Windows Forms from the same application! This is great for slowly migrating a .NET 2.0 application over to .NET 3.5; all you have to do is add the new functionality while keeping your old .NET 2.0 logic. Once you are ready, you can slowly migrate your old code over into .NET 3.5 as needed.
Well...at least it's all that easy in theory; there's just one pesky little hiccup--a System.ExecutionEngineException...
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by Bogdan Varlamov (a.k.a. Phantom Stranger)
Do you have an application that starts misbehaving randomly? You aren't quite sure what is going on, but it seems like for some reason your Timer just stops firing it's event handler--and once it stops it never starts back up.
This drove me nuts! But, it is definitely a problem in the Windows Server 2003 SP1. This bug is particularly devious since even if your application uses extensive logging it maybe be nearly impossible to find proof of a timer not firing in your logs.
Short of implementing a Homer Simpson type of "everything is okay alarm" is there anything you can do to determine whether or not your application might be suffering from dying timers?
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So, I've been hoping to make a nice little generic encryption module that essentially just wraps the .Net System stuff. Why? 'Cause I'd like to move some data around with reasonable security (it doesn't have to be completely hacker-proof, just reasonably obscured -- the data I'm covering isn't worth that much, but it's worth more than zero so it deserves some due process.) This is done with that atitude, if you want hard-core encryption, then your better off not using a wrapper (set your .IV cleverly, don't resize improper-length keys, etc.) Alternatively, use an existing, clean, third party app (or write your own -- R4 is not too terrible to code and is very powerful, especially if you tweak it during the implementation).
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