Archive for February, 2005

Referencing a web service using a non-standard port in Visual Studio .NET 2003

Posted on February 21st, 2005 by aaron
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Twice now I’ve come across this issue, so I’m documenting it here.
Adding a web service reference that doesn’t use the standard port (80) through Visual Studio .NET 2003’s “Add Web Reference” interface will cause you all kinds of pain. The issue is that although you can include a port number when specifying the URL for [...]

SHA-1 Broken?

Posted on February 16th, 2005 by aaron
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Bruce Schneier reports that SHA-1 has been proven to be broken, although not officially. For systems with high chances of being attacked, this could be deadly, but for most systems I work on, the chances of this impacting anything significantly are slim to none.
But still, that’s not the point! The point is that it’s [...]

.NETCF Blog

Posted on February 15th, 2005 by aaron
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Alex Feinman has a blog on the .NET Compact Framework. I think this might be well-visited by me.