Have Your File Operations Participate in Transactions Today

chinhdo.com — By implementing IEnlistmentNotification, you can have your file operations (copy, delete, write, etc.) participate in transactions without requiring Transactional NTFS (TxF), which only works on Vista and Windows Server 2008. Working code included. read more...

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Try/Catch Blocks Can Hurt Performance Significantly

chinhdo.com — Over at Programmers Heaven.com, there’s an interesting article on the potential performance impact of try/catch blocks. The article concluded that the average cost of a try/catch block is essentially nothing (sorry there’s no author information on the post), and that .NET/C# programmers should not think twice about using try/catch blocks. The author is right that a try/catch block has essentially zero cost. However, like most coding performance issues, exceptions and try/catch blocks do not have performance implications until they occur in some type of loop. read more...

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My Silverlight 1.1 Hello World Application

chinhdo.com — Imagine being able to author rich internet applications in your .NET language of choice, without having to mess with Javascript, cross-browser compatibility issues, or ActionScript. That’s the promise of Microsoft Silverlight 1.1. In this article, I will document my attempt at creating a Silverlight 1.1 “Hello World” application. My Hello World application is a little bit more fancy than the typical one… this one involves some animation, and drawing a few shapes from code. read more...

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StringBuilder is not always faster - Part 2

chinhdo.com — n a previous article (”StringBuilder is not always faster), I provided some quick benchmark data and gave “rules of thumb” for when to use StringBuilder and when to use traditional string concatenations. In this follow-up article, I will attempt to provide a more detailed analysis. read more...

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