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 [...]

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 [...]

Alex Feinman has a blog on the .NET Compact Framework. I think this might be well-visited by me.