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Top 20 .NET Garbage Collection Articles

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:31:01 GMT

Ah. Garbage Collection... how I love and hate thee. =P I think one sad thing about programming in .net is that it seems many developers don't know or care anything about garbage collection and memory management. You used to *have* to know about it in order to write bug free code. I suppose it is a two edge sword in that developers can develop faster as the intention was to relieve developers of the need to know or care anything about memory management. I personally have always tried to follow best practices for implementation and have tried to stay somewhat cautious of issues related to memory. I've been fortunate in never really having any memory management related issues in my previous applications. However, there, but for the grace of God, I too could go.

15 Visual Studio .NET Add-Ins you won't live without

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:16:01 GMT

From the console compiler to the powerful Visual Studio IDE, .NET is just about coding as much as the tools. For that matter, here's a list of 15 indispensable VS.NET add-ins.

Null Coalescing (Or how to make Default values sound frightening)

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:46:02 GMT

C# 2.0 introduced a little known, and somewhat useful new operator called the Null Coalescing Operator.

5 podcasts that every .net developer should be listening to

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:46:01 GMT

A list of the best .net podcasts on the web