February 2005 - Mike Taulty's Blog

Office Web Components, C# and Interop Wrappers

Here's a tiny little "gotcha". I haven't really looked much at the Office Web Components before but I wanted a Chart control today that looks really nice and this has to be the easiest way of getting one :-) I found pretty quickly though that my event...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2005 10:38 AM by mtaulty

SQL Server 2005 Service Broker and WSE2.0 SOAP Messaging

Following up on this previous post about SQL Server 2005 Service Broker , I've been writing a SOAP message transport for the Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 to move messages using ServiceBroker whilst still gaining advantage of the security, policy, addressing...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2005 2:05 AM by mtaulty

SysInternals & Rootkits

One of the big security fears at the moment is around Rootkits. I'm a long way from being any kind of security person but the idea of a Rootkit is that you install something malicious onto your PC by mistake and the install modifies the OS in some way (possibly...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2005 4:29 PM by mtaulty

Filtered Exception Handling in .NET

I saw a piece of code on a screen at DevWeek the other day and a description that went along side it that left me thinking about something that you don't see very often in .NET. The piece of code looked like something like this; public class ThrowingClass ...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2005 4:13 PM by mtaulty

Human Networks

I found this on Slashdot and I think I've read something about it before but the RedTacton site and their press release about using the human body as a data network is pretty interesting. Whether you actually need this in the era of Bluetooth and WiFI I'm not...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2005 8:49 AM by mtaulty

Wrapping IAsyncResult

I've been trying to write some code and struggling to find continuous blocks of time to do it in. However, something that I keep coming across is a scenario where I want to wrap up some code that already has an asynchronous nature and keep the asynchronous...

Published Mon, Feb 21 2005 5:39 AM by mtaulty

In-car music bliss

I'm based a long way from the Microsoft offices in the UK (it's my fault) and so I spend quite a lot of time in my car. I also trek around the country to lots of different sites so that means more time in the car. My car's got a 6-slot CD changer and, on a...

Published Mon, Feb 21 2005 2:36 AM by mtaulty

MSDN Nugget List Growing

The list of "MSDN Nugget" videos that we have published on the UK MSDN website is growing nicely. We've gone from around 4 to around 10 separate items up there right now. It'll continue to grow as there's a pipeline sitting behind it of things waiting...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 8:28 AM by mtaulty

On Garbage Collection, Scope and Object Lifetimes

I posted this the other day and then Marcus only went and read it and spotted the glaring error I'd left in the middle of it so this is a re-post... (thanks Marcus!!) For no obvious reason I've sat through a few mentions or even full explanations of .NET Garbage...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 7:48 AM by mtaulty

Devweek 2005

And now for another "message from our sponsors" ;-) I'm speaking at DevWeek next week down in London Village somewhere. You can find the details from their website , I'm on the SQL Server track on Day 2 There's also a whole bunch of my colleagues...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 4:53 AM by mtaulty

Microsoft UK Technical Roadshow

The big shindig that is the UK Microsoft Technical Roadshow (for developers, IT professionals and security folks) is now publicly announced. You can go here http://www.microsoft.com/uk/resources/techroadshow/default.mspx to see the details or I've helpfully...

Published Tue, Feb 15 2005 3:34 AM by mtaulty

Indigo ServiceContract's

Don Box (no less) has just posted an entry around ServiceContract's in Indigo with some detail as to how various bits fit together. Generally, I try and skim-read blog postings but, from time to time, I have to go and "Mark Post as Unread" with a...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2005 3:26 PM by mtaulty

SQL Server 2005 Service Broker & WSE 2.0

I've been thinking about trying to use SQL Server 2005 Service Broker as a mechanism for transporting WSE 2.0 messages. Note that what I'm doing is highly dubious as WSE2.0 isn't supported on .NET Framework 2.0 so it's purely for "demo" purposes that...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2005 3:15 PM by mtaulty

It's Magic!

I'm in the process of trying to put together a bit of code but I can't seem to find a spare 3-4 hours to sit down and sort something out. Sometimes I really miss those days where I could stick my head down for 16 hours of code and no-one complained or sent...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2005 3:03 PM by mtaulty

David Chappell on Indigo

David Chappell has just written a really, really (yes, it deserves 2 "really's") excellent introductory article to Indigo over here on MSDN . I've just read the thing end to end and it's excellent - the thing that I appreciate most about the stuff...

Published Wed, Feb 9 2005 11:53 AM by mtaulty