random technical notes

Microsoft has recently announced an open-source application software source code analysis tool, Application Inspector. Modern software development practices often require building applications from hundreds of existing components, whether they were written by another team in the organization, an external vendor, or someone in the open-source community. Although this will bring many benefits, such as faster development progress, software quality, and interoperability, etc., it will also bring hidden complexity and risks.

In response to this situation, Microsoft introduced that its internally used tool is Application Inspector, which is a software feature source code analyzer. It can identify software source code features by using static analysis and a customizable json-based rule engine to understand the function of the program. (link)

Use cases of Microsoft Application Inspector

• Identifying key changes made in a component’s feature over time to know about a potential a malicious backdoor or increased surface for attack.
• To identify and scrutinize high-risk components and components with unexpected features

Using Microsoft Application Inspector is fairly easy as it is a cross-platform, command-line tool that produces output in multiple formats such as JSON and interactive HTML.

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Additional links

• MSDN: Introducing Microsoft Application Inspector
• Анализатор исходного кода Microsoft Application Inspector

Descriptions of C++17 features, presented mostly in “Tony Tables”.

There are actually over 100 changes in C++17, only some of them are listed here.

Caveat1: C++17 is completed, but not signed off yet. There may still be changes, although highly unlikely (modulo defects).

Caveat2: I make mistakes. This is more likely.

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.NET Isolated folder can be found:

%LocalAppData%\IsolatedStorage

or

%ProgramData%\IsolatedStorage

additional information

1. Microsoft’s All-In-One Code Framework Coding Guideline
2. MSDN: Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries – New one for .NET Framework 4
3. Coding Guidelines for CSharp 3.0 and 4.0 by aviva Solutions – The downloads here includes the coding guidelines , Visual Studio 2010 rule sets and ReSharper 5 Code Style
4. Philips Healthcare – C# Coding Standard (pdf)
5. Encodo C# Handbook – Covers many aspects of programming with C#, from naming, structural and formatting conventions to best practices for using existing and developing new code. (English / October 2009)
6. .NET/SQL/TFS Code & Application Design by SSW – This includes not just for C# but also for SQL Server , Project Management etc .
7. SharpDevelop C# Coding Style Guide 0.3 by Mike Kruegar
8. C# Coding Guidelines by Validio Software (pdf)
9. The IDesign C# Coding Standard, for development guidelines and best practices
10. C# Coding Guidelines by agamura
11. C# Coding Standards and Best Programming Practices by DotnetSpider
12. Book : Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) (See all Microsoft .NET Books)