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Friday, June 08, 2007 - Posts

  • ASP.NET Performance Tips

    Please see this updated post from the Dev Connections conference in Orlando (just past) for the code samples and references for the performance talk I stepped in to do. Some people were asking me about the post, and the update had not shown up on the blog...now it is there :) See this link. Read More...
  • New and Notable 169

    Agile/TDD/Software Development MbUnit 2.4 RTM Rhino Commons, Repository<T> and Unit Of Work Setting up Windsor for auto registration of components Acropolis Brad Abrams has a follow-up post that has a lot more information including videos, links and tutorials As I figured, my friend Brad Wilson says it nice and neatly: CAB is dead! Long Live CAB! Glenn follows that up with what you need to know to migrate from CAB to Acropolis ASP.NET/Ajax/Visual Studio ScottGu has been doing these great weekly roll-up posts lately; Here's one from May 31st SQL Server Katmai Yes, there is a CTP already [via Euan ] Ayende has a Developer's Perspective on Katmai Windows Workflow The Page Flow WF sample that Jon showed me is out. It is tremendously useful and includes some nice tooling Speaking of Jon, he posted the code for his WCF and WF session at TechEd Community Ayende quite correctly says, " It's Not a War, It's Not even a hot argument " in response to Kevin . As I said there , "I said something to the effect that there is no war, there is not even violent disagreement. There are passionate people that deeply care about their craft and like to debate ideas. I might see 'can't we just get along?' as just accepting the status quo. I think we should constantly question the status quo, step out of our comfort zones to learn from each other. I have learned a lot by Ayende's questioning personally. I know O/RM for instance is 'new' for many of us and it challenges many assumptions over the years that Microsoft (wrongly) told us over the years with SPs. As I have expanded my horizons, I have learned a lot with the daily use of O/RM in my project and it has changed a lot of what I assumed and knew." Technorati Tags: Acropolis , Agile Development , Windsor , MbUnit , TDD , ASP.NET , SQL Server , Windows Workflow Read More...
  • Replacing GINA to add a custom logo?

    I just got some mail from a reader who wants to replace GINA to add a custom logo. This person wanted to know if a tutorial existed for this purpose, and mentioned that they weren't very good at C++ programming. Replacing GINA is a major undertaking, even if you only want to change the look and feel of the logon screen. This is a highly sensitive part of the security system in Windows, and if you screw it up, you can cause the user's system to fail in nasty ways, or worse, allow a bad guy to steal user credentials from those logging in using a vulnerable, modified GINA. So if all you want to do is “skin” the GINA so it has a custom logo, perhaps you should take the much, much simpler route of replacing the logon desktop background with one that has your company logo on it. You can do this by changing one registry value, and there's even a knowledge base article that explains how to do it . Just because you can replace GINA doesn't mean you should! Read More...

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