Category Archives: Technical

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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Strongly typed data binding in Windows Forms

Posted on September 28, 2008 by Håvard

Windows Forms data binding is a great tool for model-view-style applications, where the connection between the model and its view is easily declared. However, data binding is also an error-prone and tedious process with no IntelliSense support where properties are … Continue reading →

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AJAST – Cross-domain REST calls using JSON injection

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Håvard

The typical (and original AJAX) approach to calling web services asynchronously from a browser uses the XMLHTTPRequest object to request data asynchronously. However, as most of you probably already know, requests made using this object are restricted to the same … Continue reading →

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Object-Relational Mappings Considered Harmful

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Håvard

Creating an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) has become the de facto way of handling persistence in the object-oriented programming paradigm. Almost all systems require some form of persistent state, and relational databases have become the de facto place to put that … Continue reading →

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Extension methods for copying or cloning objects

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Håvard

C# 3.0 includes a new feature known as extension methods, and fiddling with it triggered the idea of creating a mechanism for copying or cloning (virtually) any .NET object or graph of objects. The manifestation of that idea has become … Continue reading →

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