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Replacing Loaded Assemblies - Paulo Morgado

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Paulo shows us how to load, unload and replace assemblies at runtime.

The 20 most kicked "top-10 stories" for Developers

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:46:04 GMT

A compilation of the 20 stories dealing with top-10 links or advices that were kicked most in 2008

A Safe & Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL & Inheritance

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:46:03 GMT

This post discusses ways to manage or work around problems arising from the statefulness of .NET Streams, including an explanation about how this is possible both through traditional inheritance and also through some indulgence in hacking of object protection levels by emitting custom IL.

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:16:05 GMT

Internal email from Bill Gates detailing his difficulties with Microsoft.com, Windows Update, and more.

DelegateMarshaler - Replace Control.InvokeRequired and Control.Invoke

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:46:02 GMT

This is the third revision of the ThreadBarrier implementation that simplifies UI and worker thread interaction. This implementation (DelegateMarshaler) supports the original thread encapsulation concept as well as provides capability for replacing Control.InvokeRequired and Control.Invoke.

"Serialize" a DependencyObject

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:46:03 GMT

A short article on how to "serialize" a DependencyObject derived class

Get Vista to Boot faster

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Great trick to use all your processors

vOptimizer reduces VMs to smallest size

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:22:21 GMT

vOptimizer is an advanced optimization solution that quickly and easily reduces a virtual machine's virtual hard drive to the smallest size possible while optimizing Windows guest operating systems for speed and performance. vOptimizer offers many new functions for enterprise level customers while improving the interface and ease of operation for smaller, desktop oriented users. vOptimizer is available in Desktop Edition oriented for optimization of local VMs, and an enterprise ready Network Edition for optimization of VMs located anywhere on the network.

Flash Component for .NET

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:01:03 GMT

Sometime ago I had a task: to create a flash projector (something like Zinc or mProjector) with C#. This program should convert input SWF files and other resources into single EXE file that should work in semitransparent or window mode. Optionally, flash.ocx / flash9.ocx can be included into final exe file. After surfing over Internet, I've found this interesting product. I hope we will create a good flash projector with it :)

Run Anonymous Methods in Another AppDomain

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:26:46 GMT

Sometimes it is quite useful to be able to run a small snippet of code in another AppDomain, and this helper class allows you to do just that.

Another Use for C# Using

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:16:02 GMT

If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qualify every object. (This isn't the interesting bit)

WPF: Reducing CPU consumption for animations « C# Disciples

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Lately I've been working on a project at work and the application was performing pretty well. The CPU Usage was below 2% and I was quite happy with it. Then I decided to add a simple animation that continues executing forever. the results 15% CPU consumption . I was amazed at how much CPU was being wasted. Yet I am a stubborn guy and if I want an animation to execute forever, I will do it no matter what..

Functional C# - Unfolding Lists

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:01:03 GMT

Very nice post on implementing ideas from functional programming with C#.

Turn Google App Engine into your own Personal Content Delivery Network

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:01:03 GMT

As anybody who has run a growing website or blog knows, response time is going to get worse with the more users you have visiting your site. The users come from all angles, RSS feeds, homepage visits, search engine visits, people sealing your static files that you host, and pretty much anything else that can be served over HTTP. The solution to this problem is to off load your static content on to a Content Delivery Network or CDN. CDN providers cost a lot of money though, so it is nothing for us mere mortals with one server can afford. But thanks to Google anyone can now run their own CDN for free on Googles servers. Lucky for you and me Google has made the process really painless and you can even have the CDN under you own domain name. In my case static.coderjournal.com.

Stop Polluting the UI Thread - Use a ThreadBarrier

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:01:10 GMT

A ThreadBarrier is a technique for simplifying the interaction between the UI and a worker thread. No longer do UI Controls need to check InvokeRequired and do the posting of events from a worker thread.

I finally get the point of inversion of control

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:31:02 GMT

A quick overview of IoC (with diagrams!).

Try-catching in a single line of code

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:01:07 GMT

Just another silly extension method hack :)

Unofficial google shell... awsome

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:16:04 GMT

Web base command shell for google. What else can I say?...

My WPF Build Environment

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:16:04 GMT

A article on how I setup my build environment for easy WPF application development

Sysinternals, now easier to get than ever

Sat, 31 May 2008 14:01:07 GMT

The sysinternals team has placed all their tools on a network share... on the internet. Now you can copy and run any of their tools from the command line. Anywhere. With no installs, website googling, unzipping or anything. \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\

How to Find Memory Leaks With CLRProfiler

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:01:07 GMT

Track down, discover and eliminate memory leaks in your applications with this free open source tool.

A good coding font makes a difference. Envy Code R, better than ever!

Tue, 27 May 2008 20:46:12 GMT

Am I the only one who believes a great programming font can boost your productivity and increase your coding joy? Check out Damien Guard's superb new release of Envy Code R, my favorite coding font.

Microsoft Pex - 0.5 Released

Wed, 28 May 2008 14:01:11 GMT

Great post into the new Microsoft Pex Unit Testing framework. Demostrates how what gets executed, the results and some on the initial cool features.

Microsoft Research's DOLOTO Makes AJAX Twice as Fast

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:01:15 GMT

Microsoft Research has released some exciting information about a new tool being worked on by Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman. DOLOTO promises to greatly speed the loading of web applications. It does this by automatically making parts of the application load in the background or lazy load when they are needed. The results look extremely impressive. They tried it on a bunch of websites and saw around a fifty percent improvement in loading time on all of them. These included such content rich sites as Live.com, Live Maps and Google Spreadsheets.

Custom NAnt Task for Removing TFS Bindings

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:46:03 GMT

This article will highlight a custom NAnt task that strips a folder of all source control bindings.