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Ambiguous contract is ambiguous [Minor bug fix for CRC32 and MD5Managed HashAlgorithm implementations]
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:12 AM

Kind reader Gregor Zurowski contacted me over the weekend to let me know that he was using my free CRC-32 HashAlgorithm implementation in his project and he'd found that omitting the call to the Initialize method lead to incorrect hash values being returned... Read More...

by Delay's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: Technical, WPF, silverlight

The proverbial "one line fix" [ComputeFileHashes works around a troublesome Silverlight-on-Mac issue]
Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:42 AM

When I achieved cross-platform parity by adding MD5 support to the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes , I thought I was done for a while. But then I got an email from a coworker reporting that the Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes running... Read More...

by Delay's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: Technical, WPF, silverlight

Cross-platform feature parity: achieved [Silverlight version of ComputeFileHashes now includes MD5!]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:09 AM

I was very happy with last week's release of ComputeFileHashes supporting the command-line, WPF, Silverlight, *and* ClickOnce . Only one thing bothered me: the Silverlight version didn't do MD5 due to the lack of support for that type of checksum by Silverlight... Read More...

by Delay's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: Technical, WPF, silverlight

Gratuitous platform support [ComputeFileHashes works on the command-line, on WPF, on Silverlight, and via ClickOnce!]
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:13 AM

Last week, I released the ComputeFileHashes tool for calculating file checksums . (To read more about what checksums are and why they're useful, please refer to that post.) ComputeFileHashes is a fairly simple .NET command-line application for calculating... Read More...

by Delay's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: Technical, WPF, silverlight