Rory Primrose

There are obvious benefits by using Lab Management for testing your software. It is a fantastic environment for test teams to test the software written by a development team. The requirement I had with my test labs was that I need to use domain controlled security within the test lab as this is what is used in production. I also do not want any impact on the development or production domains. The solution is to use a domain controller (DC) within the lab environment rather than reference the d... [More]

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There have been a couple of really good posts recently about SSL and certificates over on blogs.MSDN.com. Check them out. Planky - Crypto Primer: Understanding encryption, public/private key, signatures and certificates Kaushal - SSL Certificates

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The preparations for my CodeCampOz presentation have come a long way as has my understanding of the subject matter. I have tweaked my presentation abstract as a result. The new abstract is the following: Not a WIF of federation The Windows Identify Foundation (WIF) provides the latest Microsoft implementation for working in the claims-based identity space. WIF has particular strengths in providing federated security for systems that target users across multiple security domains, multiple ... [More]

Tags: WCF, WIF, ASP.Net

Yesterday I ran a couple of sessions at the Canberra .Net users group. I have attached a zip of the presentation deck and demo projects for you to have a look at in your own time. Unity Injection With ASP.Net and WCF.zip (1.45 mb)

Tags: WCF, ASP.Net, Unity

Mitch has just posted the agenda for CodeCampOz that is running in November. Looks like it will be a really good mix of information being presented this year. I’ll be running a session on Windows Identity Framework and how to use it without federation. Here is the abstract for my session. Not a WIF of federation The Windows Identify Framework (WIF) provides the latest Microsoft implementation for working in the claims-based identity space. WIF has particular strengths in providing feder... [More]

Tags: WCF, ASP.Net

I’ve finally convinced a work colleague to start blogging is tech experiences. His first tech related post is Simple way to encrypt App.Config through WiX 3.5 and VS2010 Using C# code.

Tags: WiX

I was reminded this morning of an email that I sent to the junior developers on my team when they joined us. It is an overview of some of the development practices, patterns and products that they would get exposed to on our project. I have included it here as a reference collection for others. Principles and Patterns These are things that I often use and are still learning to use. SOLID – Originally put together by Bob Martin (http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod). A g... [More]

Tags: Useful Links, Performance, StyleCop, ReSharper, Unit Testing, PostSharp, AOP, Dependency Injection, Unity

Code coverage is a concept that is often misunderstood and misused. It gets some criticism every once in a while because of this. The most common misconception is that code coverage is a measure of code quality. The name code “coverage” also makes it easy to assume that it is a metric regarding the exhaustiveness of test effort. Neither of these are incorrect. My definition is that code coverage is a measure of what you haven’t tested. Nothing more, nothing less. Just because something is co... [More]

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I’m saying goodbye to some friends for a couple of weeks as I head back into the land of documentation.

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I'm really looking forward to Code Camp this weekend (nerd camp my mother-in-law calls it). It should be a great weekend of sessions and networking. Hopefully I'll get to catch up with friends and meet some great new people. See you there!

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