June 2007 - Posts

Modifying NTFS file security with fileacl.exe

Published 22 June 7 1:9 PM | Ramon Smits

Till now I normally used the cacls command on the commandline for modifying ntfs file permissions. I always used the /E /T /G switches but soon found out that this does a recursive change on all folders/files and doesn't use the inheritance flag....

Filed under: Security, Permissions, NTFS, Tools

In search for the fastest IList to IList<T> conversion

Published 18 June 7 12:47 AM | Ramon Smits

I was yet again busy with a generic data layer. I like type safety as it provides compile time safety instead of run-time. The current released Db4o build (6.1) does not support type safe result list thus I had a need to convert these. My first approach...

Filed under: Performance, Conversion, Generics