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In .Net V2, there is a class called the SecureString in the System.Security namespace. Its a nifty little class that stores its contents in encrypted form, and is not subject to managed heap garbage collection side effects, where copies of the string are left around while waiting to be collected, and also its string value is not sitting in memory for all to see, nor are multiple copies made each time a character is added and a whole bunch of other things I have talked about previously. Basically, it allows secure storage, in memory, of a string, such that tools that can pry into your memory, don't see things they are not supposed to.

Since I have been working at the Microsoft SDC here in Sydney (North Ryde actually), Australia, I have been lucky enough to have a play with the XBox 360 units that are available. They haven't been released in Australia yet (March 22nd I think) so its pretty cool being able to give it a test drive. Only some demo games have been loaded on them though like King Kong, Call of Duty 2, and kalea (or something like that).

I have been reallybusy lately and have not posted about the latest podcast that Wally did. No wonder he hasn't been talking to me much lately....

Was playing around with the January CTP of Atlas which was recently released and found the error handling within Atlas interesting.

Its a little late, and I should have done this a very long time ago, but I have finally made the DOMValidator control set a public, open source project on GotDotNet for other to join and contribute to. Its is available here (http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=2c7a6f50-e57b-4606-91a2-ad35bdda6ab7) or http://codegallery.gotdotnet.com/domvalidators - its all the same place.

Ok, so I have actually got busy and managed to do a podcast. The main content on this one is about some good and bad points on the personal web site starter kit that is available for .Net 2.0. I have recently used it to create my new site at http://www.theglavs.com and thought I would share some impressions of it, its internals, and how it held up for me.

This might be old news to some so I'm sorry if its a repost, but this webcast is excellent at showing some of the internals of method invocation, reflection, and some of the new lightweight code generatin features of .Net 2.0.

Wally interviews Michael Mahemoff who is a fellow Australian and well known AJAX dude.