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Do namespace using directives affect Assembly Loading?

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:07:30 GMT

A rule in the the recent MS Stylecop release poses an interesting question - do namespace using directives affect assembly loading. Scott investigates...

.NN #19: CorrelationManager

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:12:59 GMT

This .NET Nugget is going to focus on the CorrelationManager class from the System.Diagnostics namespace. According to the MSDN docs this class "Correlates traces that are part of a logical transaction". While that's technically accurate it isn't very helpful.

NCache Stays Superior to Velocity

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:46:30 GMT

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.

Assembly Manipulation and C#/VB.NET Code Injection

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:17:40 GMT

Reflexil is an assembly editor and runs as a plug-in for Lutz Roeder's Reflector. Reflexil is able to manipulate IL code and save the modified assemblies to disk. Reflexil also supports "on-the-fly" C#/VB.NET code injection.

C# Glorified: Nemerle

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:23:59 GMT

Nemerle is a cross platform CLR based language. It is very powerful too

Update coming for SOS

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:34:12 GMT

A new update for SOS for .NET 2.0 to be included for the Debugger package

Do Language Specific Libraries Belong in .NET?

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:53:46 GMT

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?

Dime Casts .Net - Short howto videos for .Net developers

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Check out this new cool site with screencasts around 10 minutes in length. Great resource for .Net developers.

Using memory mapped files to conserve physical memory for large arrays

Fri, 23 May 2008 16:13:01 GMT

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.

Stuff in Reflection that's not in Metadata

Fri, 23 May 2008 16:09:16 GMT

Previously, I mentioned some things in Metadata that aren't exposed in Reflection. Here's an opposite case. While metadata represents static bits on disk, Reflection operates in a live process with access to the CLR's loader. So reflection can represent things the CLR loader and type system may do that aren't captured in the metadata.

The Weekly Source Code 27 - Suck Less Libraries

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:17:20 GMT

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.

Memory control : Use GCHandle to pin down the objects

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:19:45 GMT

Shows how can you pin down an object in memory and described how pinning down works with GC

What is the story with these files ending with ni?

Mon, 19 May 2008 20:00:32 GMT

Explaining Native Image files.

DebuggerNonUserCode: Suppressing ignorable exceptions in the debugger

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:55:15 GMT

Shows how to apply the DebuggerNonUserCode attribute so that the debugger doesn't break in methods that catch and handle exceptions.

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

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:50:40 GMT

What to do when you get a System.OutOfMemoryException

A Survey of .NET Languages And Paradigms

Sun, 18 May 2008 21:20:21 GMT

"To understand the kinds of changes the new designs represent, you need to understand the differences between traditional languages (such as C# and Visual Basic) and new languages (such as F#, IronPython, and IronRuby). There are three main themes in this space: object-oriented programming (a model that C# and Visual Basic both leverage), functional programming (F#), and dynamic programming (IronPython and IronRuby). Let's take a look at these paradigms and explore their distinguishing features."

Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:46:04 GMT

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.

String Format - Made Simple

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:16:04 GMT

A Silverlight tool for discovering the correct format strings for string.Format() calls

What's Coming in .NET Runtime Performance in Version V3.5 SP1

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:11:20 GMT

What's Coming in .NET Runtime Performance in Version V3.5 SP1

Debugging .NET Framework Source Code

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:45:48 GMT

Being able to step into .NET Framework Source

Getting more information from !clrstack

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:17:52 GMT

How to get parameters and other data out of a managed callstack.

Job openings with the .NET Framework Team

Thu, 01 May 2008 13:55:50 GMT

Jobs that are open with Microsoft

ASP.NET Tips: Looking at the finalization queue

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:13:41 GMT

Finalization and looking at it in the debugger

Still More on the ThreadPool Bug in .NET 2.0 SP1

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:34:17 GMT

There appears to be some confusion about this .NET 2.0 SP1 ThreadPool bug I found. Can you believe someone might be wrong on the internet? Maybe this will clear it up.

Selected posts on CLR, threading, Internationalization and WPF

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:56:10 GMT

Links to some previous posts on CLR, threading, Internationalization and WPF