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I’ve been trying to finish that book for quite some time. It was difficult :) because it is a book that you can read chapter by chapter without losing the plot and hence it’s easy to abandon it every now and then. Anyway, I managed to finish it this week and I have to say that I haven’t really learnt anything new. This doesn’t mean that it was a waste of time. On the contrary, after reading it I’m more confident that what I’ve been doing is right and I’m not some kind of weirdo that demands the impossible :)....
It looks like Windows Server 2008 needs to be extended to be able to host WCF 4.0 and WF 4.0 type of applications. The codename of this set of extensions is called Dublin. Dublin is the capital of Ireland and I'm curious if the author of the codename knew about that. Anyway, you can find more details about the new platform here. At the first glance it looks interesting but still there is no mention of publish/subscribe type of messaging. I hope I've missed something as this a huge gap in the communication framework that Microsoft provides. Tags: .NET,...
64 bit JIT and 32 bit JIT are 2 very different beasts which is what one would suspect. But still I was rather surprised that 64 bit JIT was able to reduce the call stack of a call by 20% in comparison with 32 bit JIT. A piece of my code crawls the call stack to gather some runtime characteristics and it broke on a 64 bit machine. That's how I started a small investigation and found this difference. In most cases it's not a good idea to rely on the way JIT works as this is subject to change...
By default .NET allows only 2 connections to a given network address per AppDomain. In most cases this works fine but if your app makes a couple of dozens network calls a second then this value might be too small and it might actually cause a bottleneck that is very hard to diagnose. I decided to increase the value of this setting to the value that is recommend by Microsoft (number_of_cores x 12) and one of my services speeded up significantly. Having said that I have to stress that there is no guarantee this setting will work in your case....
LINQ as a concept is highly extensible and every now and then a new LINQ to WhatEverYouWant gets announced. Just a few examples to show how fast people are adopting this technology: LINQ to LLBLGEN, LINQ to NHibernate, LINQ to Filckr, LINQ to Amazon, etc. Within a few days I've come across 3 more projects:
SyncLinq - it returns collections that implement INotifyCollectionChanged which lets you track changes
PLinq - it lets you specify that a given LINQ statement should be executed concurrently and it's up to the runtime to decide...
Microsoft Research is surprising us nearly every month. Just to name a few of their great products: PhotoSynth and Microsoft Surface. But you know what every day I hit the #$%@ limitation on the length of the path. 260 characters and that's all I can get in the .NET framework. Guys, can we back up a bit and solve the basic problems? Resharper - click on the picture to see the details: MsBuild - click on the picture to see the details: Tags: .NET, Microsoft, WTF
Scott Guthrie doesn't stop surprising me. Nearly every month he publishes something that makes me think that Microsoft is not that bad at all :). Today topic is the .NET source code. One could say that Reflector provides that functionality since it came out. That's true but Microsoft goes beyond that and they actually integrate debugging symbols + source code with VS.NET 2008. This feature will let you seamlessly step into the .NET framework code while you debug your own application. What is more they provide code with all the comments which from time to time can make huge difference. Of course they don't go mad completely and the licence the...
There are still people out there who think that by having GC they don't have to bother about memory leaks. Well that's not entirely true. I would even say that's a false statement. Next time someone says something like that I will send him/her to Mike Stall
Tags: GC, .NET
Martha Rotter will be presenting Silverlight in Dublin on 27th of September. It might be interesting, depends how deep she wants to dive :). Tags: .NET, Silverlight
Yesterday I read a blog post that meant to discuss possible naming conventions for LINQ but it turned out that the most interesting part of it was something completely different. Namely, Krzysztof Cwalina wrote that we don't have to implement IEnumerable and IEnumerator to be able to iterate through an object(collection) using foreach statement. It's enough that a class exposes GetEnumerator() method. It doesn't have to implement IEnumerable interface. At the beginning I thought that it's just another example of syntactic sugar and that the C# compiler generates implicit IEnumerable declaration on our behalf. But then I opened ildasm.exe and...
As I mentioned earlier I always wanted to read C# via CLR by Jeffrey Richter. Finally I got it a few months ago and while I was sick I read it. I think it's just brilliant because: I like the way Jeffery explains problems.He is strict and precise whenever it's needed but no more. As far as I know he is not a Microsoft employee which lets him express criticism of everything that deserves it. It reveals lots of things that you will never be aware of unless you start thinking in an illogical way. Unfortunately CLR and/or C#...
Jean Paul Boodhoo explains what the Model View Presenter design pattern is and what's the difference between it and Model View Controller. I've never been a big fun of MVC because it tightly couples View and Model. Tags: .NET, Design Patterns
Check this out. It's a great crib sheet and I've even downloaded it to my machine. Just in case it disappears from the Internet :). Tags: .NET
The BCL team has announced that they've removed quite a few collections from the Silverlight version of the framework. It makes prefect sense to remove all non-generic classes but I can get why they've removed Stack<T> and Queue<T> as well. These 2 are very useful and people should not write them from scratch. That defeats the whole purpose of the .NET framework - leverage it. I don't know all the numbers but I can imagine it wouldn't harm Silverlight if they left them. Tags: Silverlight, .NET
Over to Scott for a rough list of .NET namespaces available in Silverlight. Tags: .NET, Silverlight
Irish Microsoft Technology Conference is taking place next week. Though it's an overview what's out there in terms of Microsoft technology and thus there are not many sessions that explains things in depth it's worth going there. I can see really great speakers there that can reveal a few secrets having a pint with you :). I'm off to Spain for two weeks thus I will miss this conference. Tags: .NET, Microsoft, Conference, Dublin
You can call me a purist but from my point of view the most valuable feature of C# is its consistency and explicitness. It seems that there are 2 teams at Microsoft that work on C#. One of them introduces great features like LINQ but the second one seems to support laziness of any kind and keeps introducing features that may(will) confuse software developers. Unfortunately it looks like the 'bad' team is not going to stop its activity. Their last idea which is called partial methods and is dedicated to code generator vendors smells like a C/C++ concept. Why? Because a partial method consist of method...
Nothing comes for free. This is obvious but I still see a lot of people thinking that 64 bits architecture is going to solve all their performance problems which is not true. Maoni is explaining this in terms of .NET. Tags: Performance, .NET, GC