Category Archives: C#

Copyable available on GitHub

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Håvard

People actually download and use Copyable, and they tend to use it in scenarios I haven’t used it in. This results in bug reports and patch submissions. So far, these have been given to me by e-mail or by blog … Continue reading →

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Minimalistic MapReduce in .NET 4.0 with the new Task Parallel Library (TPL)

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Håvard

Among the news in .NET 4.0 are several additions by the Parallel Computing Platform Team. As I wandered through the documentation of the Task library with cloud computing and parallelism buzz in the back of my head, I got the … Continue reading →

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RSA using BouncyCastle

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Håvard

Trying to do RSA using BouncyCastle, but struggling to find your way around the API? In a previous post (see here) I pondered why the RSA implementation in System.Security.Cryptography is restricted to only the most common usage scenarios. I mentioned … Continue reading →

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Mocking HtmlHelper in ASP.NET MVC RC1 using Moq

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Håvard

For those of you trying to mock HtmlHelper, but finding it difficult, here’s a mock that works in ASP.NET MVC RC1.

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Why cripple the .NET RSA implementation?

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Håvard

I just found out that RSACryptoServiceProvider, the RSA implementation in .NET, does not allow you to use a private key to encrypt data. I’m no cryptographic expert, but I do know how asymmetric key algorithms like RSA work, and that … Continue reading →

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