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Solarwinds Hacked; Microsoft on the Attack
Solarwinds got hacked; and dozens of US Government Agencies were infiltrated. Microsoft navel-gazes into its eco-system problems; and there's a little bit of "If it's ...
Tech Parrots Tech; Microsoft parrots Google
A nasty RCE has been patched; .NET 5.0.1 has been released; and there's a new site that lets you find blogs for any tech stack.
Remembering the women of École Polytechnique
December 6th was the 31st anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre; we dive into some Microservices tools and framework improvements in .NET 5; and Windows Term...
Microsoft regains the "Creepy Spying Company" mantle
Microsoft now spies on your productivity in O365; lots of helpful packages abound this week around tough problems; and everyone is hung over from too much turkey.
Throw TFMs at the wall and see what sticks?
Helpful tips if you want to build .NET 5 applications; a new fuzzer; and the galaxy brain meme comes to C#
.NET Framework is dead, long live .NET!
.NET 5 is released; VB.NET is... stable, and the hipster C# (F#) gets some updates.
EF Stands for "Ever Frantically" releasing code
Entity Framework Core team probably isn't sleeping, .NET 5 Drops tomorrow, and hardcoded special characters will be the death of us all.
Always use a culture when comparing strings, just like your mama taught you
We dive deeper into the non-bug bug around String comparison and globalization; and we wait patiently for .NET 5 to drop.
It's not a bug, just a feature you didn't expect
There's a b^H^H I mean feature with string.IndexOf in .NET 5, and there exists at least one person out there combining Blazor with ABAC. In a way, we're all stronger ...
Patch Tuesday? More like Replace Tuesday, amirite?
Microsoft fixes 87 security bugs, countless CVEs, and reminds us they have money to spend, just not on non-Microsoft Open Source Projects.
MARS Attacks
Glaring bug with MARS (Multiple Active Result Sets) on EF / SqlClient for Linux on .NET Core; and a whole bunch of stuff that's less bad. Except for the Labor Dept.'s ...
Is it .NET or dotnet?
Two Conferences walked into a bar, one named .NET Conf and one named dotnetconf. Confusion ensues.
A Magic String that takes down your system
A special magic string that can destroy systems that save your passwords in plain text, and we're partying like it's 1999 because up is down, and Code Project is back.
.NET 5 RC 1 is looking for a few good Daredevils
.NET 5 RC 1 is released; and the .NET community learns an uncomfortable truth: People would rather learn node than learn .NET.
CVEs mean always having to patch your systems.
Two major CVEs in the wild, one patched; EF Core gained some quarantine weight, but I'm not one to judge. I eat junk food, and EF Core adds features. We all deal wit...
August 29, 2020 - Blazor, the new Silverlight?
.NET 5 Preview 8 is out; and a blog post asks: is blazor the future of development?
August 22, 2020 - Why we can't have nice things
Microsoft waits 2 years to patch an exploit in the wild, and other news from last week.
August 15, 2020 - Patch, Patch, Patch!
Microsoft releases updates to all its .NET ecosystem tooling to account for another big CVE; Microsoft humble-brags about OSS.
August 8, 2020 - You can build .NET when *I* say you can
Microsoft reminds everyone that Ignite is coming; .NET Core refuses to be built.
August 1, 2020 - .NET Foundation: Friend or Foe?
Stack Overflow releases its performance metrics; Hacker News Cries. The .NET foundation released its "State of the Foundation" report, and I go deep into what the .NE...