Last week I learned a very interesting lesson. I am just in the end phase of a custom software delivery project. Using OLIVANOVA‘s model driven software development approach, I created a three-tier application with an ASP.NET client, a COM+ based server tier and MS SQL Server as the persistence layer. […]
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Microsoft has released a security advisory about a vulnerability in ASP.NET. A security patch is already available here. Below are some details on how the vulnerability works: “To understand how this vulnerability works, you need to know about cryptographic oracles. An oracle in the context of cryptography is a system […]
Microsoft ASP.NET Security Vulnerability: “padding oracle”

To me, Silverlight has always been a fascinating technology. I started playing around with Silverlight back in September 2007. Since then, I always wanted to create a Silverlight user interface for OlivaNova. With the first versions, the lack of standard data controls made it really difficult to implement a data-driven […]
Silverlight 4, WCF RIA Services and OlivaNova Business Logic
Today I learned an interesting feature of JavaScript along with Firebug. Instead of using “alert” to display some trace information, you can use “console.log (“my message”);”. Together with the free web development tool Firebug, this information can then be shown in Firebug’s console window. This is extremely helpful when trying […]