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BigDipper Light: Authentication and Privacy Further

Ivo reported a new issue recently, and it shows that #SNMP does not yet handle SNMP v3 REPORT message completely. http://sharpsnmplib.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=238442 The technical d...

BigDipper Light: Updated Async Support

Starting from our latest change set, you need to provide one more argument to BeginGetResponse. That was the missing piece, state object. As state object is a requirement of Microsoft .NET asynchr...

News on Alex 3 RC and SharpDevelop 4

Hi there, are you still using SharpDevelop 3, and Alex 2 (http://alex.codeplex.com)? Well, time for a change, as SharpDevelop 4 is nice, and we have Alex 3 for it now, http://alex.codeplex.com/re...

Windows Live Mail Spelling Does Not Work

I am using Windows Live Mail 2011 to write blog post, as Writer cannot connect to Blogger here in China. But at first Spelling button was greyed out and I did not know why. Well, the fix is not ha...

BigDipper Light: Higher Test Coverage Worths the While

The first time I read about high test coverage, I was curious about two points, Is it possible? Does it worth the while? The longer I had been applying TDD in my development, the easier it ...

Discussion on Open Source Licenses

On Twitter, I have been discussing with @walshmichael on GPL. Well, Twitter is really a bad place to discuss such advanced topics. I don’t want to waste time any further on this topic as everyone...

BigDipper Light: First Asynchronous Sample

Microsoft invents a series of patterns for .NET asynchronous API design. However, no every pattern meet all requirements. For #SNMP, currently the Begin/End pattern is still the most suitable as it...

BigDipper Light: Asynchronous Calls Coming

It was at the very beginning that users call for asynchronous GetResponse. Well, I did not provide them as I was not happy to provide the same copy of code several times in several places. Besides,...