Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings on the Fly

published 1 month, 7 days ago, submitted by Rickasaurus 1 month, 7 days ago

atalasoft.com — .NET 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 jointly included a new feature which lets you programmatically manipulate the way your garbage collector acts. This can be done through changing the value of a new property of the System.Runtime.GCSettings class named LatencyMode. In this article I will walk you through this new property and the different effects of each of it's possible settings. read more...

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Using Database Projects for Visual Studio

published 5 months, 3 days ago, submitted by kayos 5 months, 3 days ago

blog.reamped.net — Do you use database projects in Visual Studio? If not, then now is a good time to start. It is the best way I have found to source control my databases without actually sticking the database file itself in the repository. read more...

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Refactoring gets the blame

mark-dot-net.blogspot.com — Interesting post about how refactoring gets the blame when schedules slip. But that was not the root cause. Also nice list of benefits to refactoring for future app maintenance gains. read more...

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SubSonic: 2.1 Beta 2 Available Now

published 6 months, 28 days ago, submitted by alley 6 months, 29 days ago

blog.wekeroad.com — I spose there’s not much more to add to that title. Eric and Shawn Oster have been hard at work while I pretty much have been under water for the last month, getting ready for MIX. 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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Does Your Code Pass "The Turkey Test?"

moserware.com — How careful are you about using the correct form of string and number formatting? How about your use of String.Compare and String.Equals? read more...

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Exploring the Code for the New .NET 3.5 Classes

published 7 months, 25 days ago, submitted by wisemx 7 months, 26 days ago

scottonwriting.net — I often use the free and awesome decompiler Reflector to peer into the source code of Microsoft's .NET Framework. It's an indispensable tool. However, I had a little difficulty viewing the underlying source code for some of the new .NET 3.5 classes. In particular, for a recent article I was interested in looking at what was happening underneath the covers when the DataPager control was rendered. The DataPager is a new control in ASP.NET 3.5 used to render a paging interface for the ListView control (also new to 3.5). read more...

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The DotNetKicks Effect

published 7 months, 27 days ago, submitted by dengar007 7 months, 27 days ago

frickinsweet.com — An overview of traffic coming from DotNetKicks when an article makes it to the front page. read more...

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