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Profiling the Memory Usage of a .NET Application

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:45:02 GMT

Automatic memory management in .NET makes development a lot easier; however, it's still easy to introduce memory leaks into your application. For example, in a complex application, it's easy to forget to unregister event handlers, and these are notorious for holding on to objects which you don't need to keep in memory any more. This typically leads to an increase in memory usage which, if it remains unchecked and unresolved, can lead to your application exhibiting poor performance, or even running out of memory and crashing. This is where a memory profiler becomes necessary.

Performance testing of Dictionary, List and HashSet

Fri, 29 May 2009 20:30:00 GMT

A quick little test of how the .net 3.5 Dictionary, List and HashSet compare adding and finding items.

How to add Silverlight detection to Google Analytics

Sat, 16 May 2009 04:18:24 GMT

One of the things that are currently missing from Google Analytics is Silverlight detection. Normally this type of information would appear under the browser capabilities section, the same section that lists Flash and Java versions. While I'm sure this will change eventually, it is something that can be very useful to web sites hosting Silverlight applications today.

Kona 3: Learning Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Fri, 15 May 2009 22:46:26 GMT

Holy cow! Another *DD - man I really must have an IV with that Alt.NET Punch just coursing like a train in my veins! I ask for your patience with this one - cause I think BDD is a really good tool to know - whether you use it or not - knowing the workings of it will allow you to have some intelligent conversation the next time you're in Austin :).

Code Generation Should be the Nuclear Option

Wed, 06 May 2009 09:16:02 GMT

So let me first just start off by saying: I do not like code generation. In certain cases I think it can help greatly, but many people are far too eager to jump to this solution. I don't think that there is anything particularly evil about the process of generating code, but I do feel like using code generation as a day to day tool is a very bad practice. Code generation should be the tool of last resort when there is no good way to cleanly implement a solution which doesn't require code to be spread out everywhere.

Using Obscure Windows COM APIs in .NET

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:16:02 GMT

A lot of the new Windows Vista and Windows 7 APIs are exposed via COM. Here's a simple introduction for how to use them when no wrappers are available.

Just say No! to C# Regions

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:01:02 GMT

You need a language construct so that your IDE can help you hide your big messy code block from you (because it's just so hideous, you don't even want to look at it anymore)?

ASP.NET MVC source code under MS-PL

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:16:03 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the ASP.NET MVC source code is being released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). MS-PL is an OSI-approved open source license. The MS-PL contains no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code.

Dragging has NEVER been so easy

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:16:04 GMT

A example of how to make elements in WPF drag-able using Expression Blend 3 behaviours!

How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:46:04 GMT

A very deep dive into the source code for how .NET Regular Expressions really work

Ninject 2 Reaches Beta

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:31:03 GMT

Version 2.0 of the Ninject dependency injection framework has reached beta status.

Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:01:16 GMT

IE6 users are still too many... it started with a tweet from a Norwegian web developer, and spread like fire across Europe. Joining the campaign is easy: just add a few lines of code to your site or blog. In this post is how to do it and a little more of background on how to do it.

Who Knew Domain Validation Was So Hard?

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:01:05 GMT

Justin continues searching for the best place to put domain validation logic.

Azure - Performance, IoC, and Instances

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:01:04 GMT

My experience so far working with Azure. Some performance testing, IoC container incompatibilities, and frustration with instances.

amCharts for WPF - WPF charting solution

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:01:26 GMT

amCharts has released the first version of the WPF edition of their famous charting control bundle. This brings the power and flexibility of amCharts to the WPF platform. And as original amCharts for WPF can be used free of charge even in commercial projects and products.

Transactional File System Operations with C#

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:01:02 GMT

In this post Tuna tries to explain his approach to transactional file system operations. This piece of code uses two of the Vista's new features namely Kernel Transaction Manager(KTM) and Transactional NTFS.

Activator.CreateInstance Performance

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:31:23 GMT

A look at the different forms of Activator.CreateInstance and the performance implications of each.

Most Interesting .NET StackOverFlow Questions

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:46:02 GMT

Today a short list of My Personal Most Interesting .NET Questions to me asked on StackOverFlow I founded.

Oxite - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:01:16 GMT

Oxite is an open source application built on ASP.NET MVC and Karl Seguin raises some points related to the design/architecture/implementation.

Choosing Between WebForms and MVC

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:46:04 GMT

Another take on what to consider when making a decision between Asp.Net WebForms or Asp.Net MVC.

Some Thoughts on Oxite

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Rob Conery's comments and thoughts on new open-source CMS project 'Oxite'. In this post he analyzed some critical issues in Oxite and suggested some solutions to optimize this ASP.NET MVC powered blog engine.

The Perfect Storm Botnet

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:16:02 GMT

Rob Conery talks about the power of a bot net and why developers should be aware of XSS attacks and other nasties should an app be allowing users to post into the system.

Performance creating objects using generic new contraint

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:49:44 GMT

Looks at performance creating objects using generic new contraint

Is F# faster than C#

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:16:11 GMT

I had a bet with a co-worker that C# would out perform F# for a simple counting exercise. This turned out to be quite a surprise for many reasons. In this blog post I will try to explain why.

IronPython 2.0 Has Been Released

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:16:08 GMT

Microsoft has released IronPython 2.0 on CodePlex, the .NET implementation of the Python language. The most important improvement is running on top of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR).