Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure
Published: September 17, 2010 | Updated: September 20, 2010

http://visualstudiomagazine.com/article ... -hack.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/ ... ility.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/ ... ility.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/securi ... 16728.mspx
http://blog.krisvandermast.com/Importan ... ility.aspx

Security Patch Is Available: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/arch ... today.aspx

Reference the system.EnterpriseServicess assembly to your project.

using System.EnterpriseServices.Internal;

public void Update(DirectoryInfo folder_GAC)
{
  //check if folder containing new dll files exists
  if(folder_GAC.exists){
    //add each dll found in this folder to the Global Assembly Cache
    foreach (FileInfo dll in folder_GAC.GetFiles("*.dll")) 
    {
      //instantiate a new Publich object and install the dll
      Publish objpublish = new Publish();
      objpublish.GacInstall(dll.FullName);
    }    
  }
}

remove an assembly from the GAC can be done by using the GacRemove(string name) method.

more information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... blish.aspx

Yesterday evening I attented an interesting session, with a lot of people, from Brad Abrams (Program Manager at Microsoft and author of the book Framework Design Guidelines ).

Most of the things he told were already known in a technical point of view, but what made it so interesting is the reason why some things are built in the .NET framework.

When to use a property in stead of a method, after all... A property is a method?!

When to use an extention method combined with a namespace and add overload methods to an interface or to manage dependencies?

Why shouldn't I define extension methods on the System.Object? ;)

And my favourite:
Do as little as possible now (but no less) to ensure room for extensibility in the future

How to achive the secret of great productivity?

did I get your attention?

Brad has provided us with the slides which can be downloaded from here

always nice to learn some new things :)

Here you are:

• VS 2008 SP1 download
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 download