James Kovacs' Weblog

Two new tools were recently released onto the .NET scene to assist with identifying differences between assemblies. The two are actually complementary. The first is LibCheck from Microsoft, which displays API differences between two assemblies. The second is the Reflector Diff Addin, which actually displays differences in MSIL (in the language of your choice of course). The Reflector Diff Addin, of course, is an addin for Lutz Roeder’s fantastic Reflector .NET. Reflector just got better.

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[via Christian Weyer]

I have updated ZoneStripper to v1.0.1.0. This version fixes an issue where ZoneStripper would stop processing files/directories on an “Access denied” error. ZoneStripper would occassionally encounter this error on a particular file, even when you have full rights to the file and it is not locked. Closing all open applications and/or rebooting and re-running ZoneStripper produces the same error and always on the same file(s). This version logs the issue to the console, but continues processing additional files. Previously ZoneStripper reported the error, but stopped processing additional files. Thanks to Jason Kaczor for alerting to this mysterious problem.

Don Box and Andrew Layman analyze the flow characteristics of XML streams using fluid dynamics and investigate improvements to XML compression efficiency using discrete cosine transforms.

 

 

This is geek humour at its finest. Thanks, Don and Andrew, for an enjoyable April 1st chuckle.