<ChristophDotNet

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  • Buffer overrun starboard ahead ...

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    Server Unavailable ... That was the message on my fancy new VoIP phone, when Blaster hit. Nothing worked that afteroon in the company I as at that day. No network, no phone, no nothing. Business stood still. Since then, we know that sloppy written C/C++ programs are the root of all evil, or at least of buffer overruns and other security problem. Therefore managed programming environments like our beloved .NET (and the where everything starts with the letter J) were created -- partially with the hope that these security problems would soon be a thing of the past.

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  • My pop-up blocker quit working in Windows XP SP2 :(

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    I recently edited the security settings for the Internet and Intranet zones on my computer. Ever since then my pop-up blocker quit working, regardless of what I am doing to re-instantiate it into avtive duty. Note that I did never explicitly turn it off. All I did was change the defaults for downloading AcitveX controls.

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  • .NET Beta 2 Feature Cut List

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    The ASP.NET team is blazing trails again. They already published the list of changes between beta 1 and beta 2 so us early adopters can prepare for the changes and roll out apps as soon as .NET beta 2 with the limited-support go-live license ships!

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  • ANN: Visual Studio 2005 Express lnstallFest in Austin on 8/18

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    I would like to invite all .NET enthusiasts in the Austin area to come out to the Microsoft Technology Center on Wednesday 8/18, 6:00pm to join us for an InstallFest for Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta 1. 
     
    WE will provide food, drinks, plenty of CDs to install beta 1 of the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions and a few X-Boxes to play Halo while your installations are running. 
     
    YOU bring your laptops (or your desktops if you insist), install away and play. The installation of the Visual Studio Express Editions is fairly quick and easy (at least compared to the full version of Visual Studio). Depending on the speed of your laptop you should be done installing in about 30 minutes. I haven't seen any reports of issues running Visual Studio 2005 side-by-side with Visual Studio 2003, but since it is still in beta there are no guarantees.
     
    Please take a look at J Sawyer's blog entry for InstallFest FAQs. For questions about ADNUG and directions to the location, please visit http://www.adnug.org.
     
    Hope to see you there.
    Christoph

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