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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/22
The first bulleted link below has been living in my drafts like forever (i.e. somewhere since mid June 2009), so time to write a bit about ISO 8601 and .NET.
First a few links about converting a DateTime into ISO 8601 string format:
Some solutions use the “K” as a time zone specifier. At first, I couldn’t find any documentation for it, not even Google Search for Google Search for “ssK” DateTime ToString returns anything useful.
Later on, I found The “K” Custom Format Specifier in Custom Date and Time Format Strings.
So my preferred solutions for me are these:
System.DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");
System.DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK");
I avoid these:
System.DateTime.Now.ToString("o");
because it gets you too many digits in the second fracion.
System.DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().ToString("s") + "Z";
because it is less clear what it does (might be resolved with a comment).
–jeroen
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/17
Thanks User Andrew Hare – Stack Overflow for answering this on Stack Overflow.
I’m pretty sure it works in all .NET and C# versions starting with 2.0.
Here is a hack-ish way to do it without having to load the entire output string into an XmlDocument: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/16
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/15
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/10
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/09
Interesting read:
The C language specification describes an abstract computer, not a real one – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
In other words: any language that merges null behaviour in the underlying storage will have a problem somwehere.
So if you want to have true nullable types, your null flag should be stored outside the underlying storage.
The .NET framework 2 and up, most database management systems and many other environment support that.
But most languages don’t support it for pointer types. So there will be portions of address spaces either inaccessible, or only accessible when skipping the null pointer checks.
Note that the thread above contains some very interesting bits, for instance this one:
Matt 28 Mar 2013 5:58 PM #
@MarkY “Dereferencing null is undefined? Cool! I thought it was guaranteed to crash, just like a false assertion or something. So crashing is the OS guarantee, not the language guarantee apparently.”
Nope. It’s not an OS guarantee either. The OS won’t ever normally allocate memory at address zero, but there’s nothing to stop you telling it to. Try doing “VirtualAlloc(1, 4096, MEM_RESERVE | MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE)” on your pre-Windows8 machine.
In fact, this is the reason why null-dereferences in kernel mode are often exploitable as elevation of privilege attacks. The null-page is mappable and within the user-addressable region of memory, so if the kernel dereferences a null pointer, it reads attacker controllable data.
And btw, this is the reason why on Linux and Windows8+ you can’t map the null-page.
–jeroen
via: The C language specification describes an abstract computer, not a real one – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/02
Every once in a while, someone hoses their computer far enough that it has to be reinstalled, but the original Microsoft product keys are misplaced, and some creepy anti-virus tool disallows the running of standard product key recovery tools like nirsoft’s.
Well, there is enough sourcecode that does recover it, just look for any of these strings:
Some hits:
The below full executables can trigger a virus warning (ordered from less often to most often):
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/31
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/24
When using a FlowLauyoutPanel, I always forget on which control the FlowBreak design time property / SetFlowBreak run time method operates.
Then I always end up writing a short demo program like Container Controls 5: FlowLayoutPanel.
It operates after the control on which you set it.
It is like text in a Word Processor: it breaks after the place where you set the break. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/21
Today I got a request from friend that never saw this: Mark Miller coding by Guitar using a CodeRush plugin.
For the people that never saw Mark Miller coding by Guitar (he did this many times on conferences around 2009/2010), watch the video here: DevExpress Code Rush (Coding via Guitar).
In the box on the left, scroll to Code Guitari, then play the video from there.
–jeroen
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