New BCL features in Beta1

A nice overview of the New BCL features in Visual Studio 2005 Beta1.

Of particular interest to me (or it should be anyway) is the ACL support. Now I have even fewer reasons to not write secure systems. Nuts.

I'm also intrigued by the Debugger Display Attributes.

[Listening to Lost Prophets - New Noise]

ReaderWriterLock + IDispose

Eric Gunnerson points to a useful wrapper for ReaderWriterLock implementing IDispose courtesy of Sebastien Lambla.

[Listening to: KoRn - A.D.I.D.A.S]

PassWORDs vs. PassPHRASES

Robert Hensing posted an article on his new blog, humourously titled: Why you shouldn't be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks . . .. Great stuff. Read the comments too.

[Listening to: Pat Boone - The Wind Cries Mary] (really!)

MSDN Solutions at a Glance

An Architecture and Design solutions FAQ from MSDN.

Possibly even more useful are the other documents in this area in the TOC.

Now I just have to find time to read them. Sigh.

MbUnit 2.17 (beta) released.

Sweetness. Jonathan de Halleux has released MbUnit 2.17 (beta).

Now I just need to find the Automatic Unit Test Generator plug-in for Reflector.

Demand, LinkDemand, RequestRefuse and RequestOptional -- Preventing luring attacks

Peter Torr sums up a set of blog entries on luring attacks and other security issues:

GetObject and LinkDemands

Maintaining LinkDemands across inheritance boundaries

RequestOptional and RequestRefuse

RequestRefuse and RequestOptional example

Someday this stuff will sink in. Someday.

Tasks for MSBuild 2.0 (VS 2005 beta 1)

Jamie Cansdale of NUnitAddIn fame has posted the set of Tasks for MSBuild 2.0 (VS 2005 beta 1). Not too shabby.

Database Unit Testing issues and solutions: Rollback And RestoreDatabase abilities

Roy Osherove outlines his epiphany surrounding unit tests with databases. Truly brilliant. Needless to say this is way better than what I used to come up with.
 
[Listening to: Ugly Kid Joe - Cat in the Cradle]

Mailframe Configuration System

Another potentially useful configuration library: Mailframe Configuration System (from thinking-out-loud here.)

[Listening to: Pantera - Living in a Hole]

Using the Server (rather than Workstation) Garbage Collector with the .NET Framework (CLR)

Scott Hanselman collected some useful articles on the Server GC: Using the Server (rather than Workstation) Garbage Collector with the .NET Framework (CLR)

And to think that I didn't even know there were 2 GC's.