NCache Stays Superior to Velocity

simpable.com — Well I have seen all these solutions but found NCache as the best one becuase no other solution is available for Object Caching. I was comparing the CTP1 of Microsoft's Velocity and to my surprise they almost copied the wordings of NCache's description. I had also compared the detailed features so far discussed by Velocity at TechEd with all these solutions and again found NCache a step ahead. The pricing is not that complex. Its only the way you understand it. I have bought it for 15 CPUs and so far have been getting excellent support from this company. I had a comprehensive demo and testing as well where they showed 100%. The big plus of NCache is that they have always been bringing new topologies which are still missing with other solutions. I am not sure what will be Licensing structure of Microsoft for this as Microsoft has always been very clever in their Licensing structures. I had bought some Licenses of Microsoft GP for my organization few months ago. The actual cost was way different from the one initially told. The basic structure has so many features missing. When I asked for some common features I was heavily charged. I am worried that they may repeat the same here as well. read more...

1 comment | category: CLR | Views: 17

C# Glorified: Nemerle

reverseblade.blogspot.com — Nemerle is a cross platform CLR based language. It is very powerful too read more...

add a comment | category: CLR | Views: 19

Do Language Specific Libraries Belong in .NET?

infoq.com — Should we really have libraries in .NET that are language specific? Why do only VB programmers get a Copy Directory function? Why do J# programmers (all 3 of them) get ZIP and UNZIP for free? read more...

add a comment | category: CLR | Views: 17

Using memory mapped files to conserve physical memory for large arrays

submitted by crpietschmann 1 month, 11 days ago

codeproject.com — I have long thought about creating a disk based version of an array to store my data, but this would require a lot of caching logic to make it perform fast enough compared to physical memory. A couple of years ago I stumbled across Memory Mapped Files which has long existed in the operating systems and is typically used in Windows for the swap space. With even more data in my current project and running on a 64bit platform, the time seemed right to wrap this into a small library. read more...

add a comment | category: CLR | Views: 8

The Weekly Source Code 27 - Suck Less Libraries

submitted by crpietschmann 1 month, 13 days ago

hanselman.com — The folks at http://www.nventive.net/ have created a project called Umbrella that is a series of helpers over the .NET BCL that aims to "reduce friction and increase predictability of the API." They plan to launch additional accelerators over Unity, the Entity Framework, WCF and the Enterprise Library. It is exceedingly broad and includes literally hundreds of new methods and helpers. However, I don't think you're expected to "learn" Umbrella as they hope you'll stumble into it...in a good way. It's like the concept of The Pit of Success. There's little easier than just falling, and the idea is that if you've designed an API correctly folks will just fall into success. read more...

add a comment | category: CLR | Views: 8

What is the story with these files ending with ni?

blogs.msdn.com — Explaining Native Image files. read more...

add a comment | category: CLR | Views: 4

ASP.NET Tips: What to gather to troubleshoot - OutOfMemoryException

blogs.msdn.com — What to do when you get a System.OutOfMemoryException read more...

add a comment | category: CLR | Views: 8

Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application

published 1 month, 19 days ago, submitted by Rickasaurus 1 month, 19 days ago

atalasoft.com — In this post I discuss the gcConcurrent and gcServer settings which allow you to exercise some control how the Garbage Collector operates. Tuning the garbage collector to the specific context of the particular application can significantly improve the performance of both non-threaded and multi-threaded applications. read more...

add a comment | category: CLR | Views: 198