Archives for 2004

If you are using log4net like me then I am sure you will like this idea. I combined it with ReSharper.

A log4net tip

Now that I have my publishing tool working I just got the news that as a Microsoft MVP I can register to get a free X.509 certificate. Excellent timing :-) !!! I planed to generate one, but with such an offer...

This morning I woke up at 4:30 AM, and could not sleep anymore, so I decided to work on my publishing tool for my site Tech Head Brothers. I finally managed to publish directly from Word 2003 in a secure way. The website exposes a publishing web service that uses WS-Policy, to specify that it needs Signature and Encryption using a X.509 certificate. When the user hits the publish button, the tool:

• Transform the XML generated by Word 2003, e.g. to include pictures, colorize source code...
• Zip the XML document and all referenced files (pictures, zip)
• Attach the zip file using DIME to the SOAP context
• Add signature and encryption to the SOAP context
• Call the web service

During my trip to Barcelona, last week, I met Atif Aziz, President and Program Director, and Roman Mathis, Vice President and Membership Director, of the <strong>.NET Managed User Group of Switzerland</strong>. We had several interesting discussions and I finally decided to join them in their user group as I am working in Zürich, Switzerland and they are located in the same city.

The 3 upcoming Events organized by the user group are: