Archive for December, 2008

Flash Player 10 Causing Internet Explorer Hang

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Some folks (including me) are experiencing problems with version 10 of the Adobe Flash player and Internet Explorer. Oddly enough, I didn’t seem to have any trouble until after this month’s “patch Tuesday” (Microsoft updates).

For now, I’ve downgraded Flash to version 9 to workaround the problem. Adobe has older versions of Flash available for download here:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266

Escaping characters for an XML string in .NET

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

From the stuff I should know but didn’t until yesterday dept:

Handy method in the System.Security namespace for replacing invalid XML characters with their escaped equivalents:

SecurityElement.Escape(string str)