When you are developing custom SharePoint web parts using SharePoint Object Model, it’s not enough that you can properly render contents in “Browse mode”. Your web part must also take into account when the page it is attached to goes into “Edit mode”. In this blog post, I enumerate the different states the web part … Read more
Microsoft came out today with an out-of-band security update for the ASP.NET Padding Oracle Attack Vulnerability. If you didn’t perform the recommended workaround last week (when this vulnerability was disclosed) because you thought the Microsoft update was going to come out soon–well, I think you got lucky today now that the update is out. BUT, I hope … Read more
Yesterday, I blogged about the newest ASP.NET Vulnerability. As of this writing, there is still no patch for the ASP.NET Security Advisory 2416728. If the detection tool as part of the workaround provided by Microsoft reports that your apps are okay, then you don’t have nothing to worry about—just wait for the security update (what … Read more
I’ve been wanting to write this earlier today but it was a typical busy Monday. It’s about the recently published vulnerability in ASP.NET. I was looking at my twitter feeds this past Sunday to see what people I’m following are up to. I came across Tom Resing’s tweet about Security Advisory 2416728. The advisory came … Read more
I am in the process of getting up to speed with the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE and how it can be used to develop custom SharePoint 2010 solutions. It’s so easy to do a “Hello World” Web part project now. These days, my Hello World projects typically involve opening up a database table and … Read more
If you are a .NET developer and if you happen to also have a Mac environment, I highly recommend that you learn iPhone development. Why? Read on. I purchased a Macbook Pro a week ago and started coding an app within the first 2 hours of getting home! I tell you what, I’ve been a … Read more