What do you think about the following code: byte[] privateParams, publicParams; using (var rsa = new System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider()) { privateParams = rsa.ExportCspBlob(true); publicParams = rsa.ExportCspBlob(false); } using ...

Note to self: dearest Dan! If you happen to use ILMerge with an exe file, please make sure you check the app.config file. Why?  Well, suppose you have a custom settings section in your app.config, just like this: <configSections> <sectionGroup name="Atalasoft"> <!-- Converter service settings section: ...

The Kerberos, or Cerberus in Latin, a multithreaded multi-headed dog with tail of serpent heads, the hellhound, who used to guard the gates of Hades behind the river of Styx to keep the dead ancient Greek people dead in the kingdom of Shadows. Once Kerberos was captured by Hercules and then brought to Eurystheus, where his DNA has been ...

Once upon a time I had to join a workgroup-based SharePoint test server to a domain. SharePoint wonderland is like 4th dimension – it is full of unexpected and no task is trivial for naive 3D creature. Jake and Dave referred me to a magical “15-step” process to move SharePoint to different domain, but Google’s links are dead and so are my hopes ...

Don’t ask me why, but at some point I ended up with the necessity of having debug assemblies in the GAC. OK, if you still ask, it is about SharePoint remote debugging. After dragging-and-dropping PDBs and DLLs for 651th time I almost started feeling an imprint in my desk surface, which mouse carved out while travelling back and forth. Sounds like ...