When data are moved across a network the recipient might require a verification to ensure that data have not been modified after send. For example, in a client/server scenario where a client application sends some updates to a remote database via a web service, the web service might need to verify that data have not been modified while travelling across the network, either due to corruption or because somebody changed them. A simple way to implement such kind of verification is utilizing hashing.

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I know, this is not the first time I announce the development of a DNN SMS Module. But this time I really started its development, and I’m currently working on a provider-independent SMS engine, able to send SMS using virtually any SMS Gateway or SMS...

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The readonly modifier is used to declare an instance-specific constant data member which can be initialized in the class constructor and is not limited to compiler-time constants only.

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Today a friend of mine asked me how to cast from List<> to a custom MyCollection class, where MyCollection is derived from List<>. Is this possible?

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Recently, I've been looking for an easy way to create icons and some web graphic. I don't consider myself a graphic designer, but I like to experiment with creating some cool graphic, often with not satisfactory results.

The state of the art tool every good designer uses is, of course, Photoshop. But in order to take advantage of its huge power it requires constant usage, knowledge of the hundreds of functions it has - and from my point of view its learning curve is not trivial. I think I know and I am able to use no more than 10% of its power...

A few weeks ago I found a product which suits my needs: creating icons, either 2D and 3D, creating 3D models, render images and much more. The name of this product is RealWorld Icon Editor.

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It's available for download the Requirements Management demo application I mentioned a while ago.

This is a demo application I wrote to familiarize with the kind of UI and features I plan to include in the biggest project ActiReq I'm currently working on.

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