UI Configuration Encryption tools

I have found the need to encrypt many of my files across many deployments. So I wrote a winform encryption tool, and borrowed from an MSDN article to encrypt web config files. You can download both here.

Microsoft- The Sleeping Giant

So here we are…

We have .NET 2.0 with some good enhancements...

We have VSTS 2005 that has some decent enhancements, except for the worthless VSTS Architect...

We have Vista the release at the end of the yellow brick road...

We have software factories, that are nice but nothing new, although it is encouraging to see MS catch up...

We have DSL, the biggest mistake MS has made since MSF…

We have the GAT, but what is its purpose for the common team?

We have MS certifications, a wasted memorization exercise...

We have Don Box, what? We do? We the heck is Don?...

We have CF 2.0, a mess of a mess and a team that has moved on…

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Well that about summarizes where I am at with my blogs, except of course the Don Box plug… I just wanna know where the heck he is?

So what is coming next?

Smart Client Software Factory, excellent… but lets reduce the complexity for the developer by 100 X's

GAT… A tool that in the world of Product Line Engineering cannot ignored.

SOA….. .. . The architectures that succeeded in the past have been propagated to the future.

The CAB… a quiet and tamed way to make use of it.

Abstraction by MS…. The Good, the bad, and the ugly.

MS… the giant appears to be sleeping… but in the shadows it labors and toils for your sole… I predict another massive mess of a release.

Tune in…. Or not…. A certification may save your sole….