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July 2008 - Posts

Monday, July 21, 2008 10:46 AM

String equality

akutz has one of the most detailed post on string interning and equality comparison performance metrics I have ever seen. Head over to the post here I loved his conclusion which is the crux of the whole story. " In conclusion, the String class’s
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:42 AM

Writing exception handlers as separate methods may prove to be a good idea

Let us consider a scenario where you catch some exception and in the exception handler do some costly operation. You can write that code in either of the following ways Method-1 : Separate method call public class Program { public static void Main(string[]
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:42 AM

Microsoft Roundtable

Our conference rooms have been fitted with this really weird looking device (click to enlarge). I had no clue what the thing was. Fortunately it's box was still placed in the room along with the manual. It's called the Microsoft RoundTable and it is actually
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:42 AM

Do namespace using directives affect Assembly Loading?

The simple answer is no, the inquisitive reader can read on :) Close to 2 year back I had posted about the two styles of coding using directives as follows Style 1 namespace MyNameSpace { using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text;
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Monday, July 07, 2008 10:42 AM

Auto generating Code Review Email for TFS

We use a small command line tool called crmail to auto-generate code review email from shelveset. I find the whole process very helpful and thought I'd share the process and the tool (which has some really cool features). Features Automatic generation
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Friday, July 04, 2008 10:42 AM

How does the .NET CF handle null reference

What happens when we have code as bellow class B { public virtual void Virt(){ Console.WriteLine("Base::Virt"); } } class Program { static void Main(string[] args){ B b = null; b.Virt(); // throws System.NullReferenceException } } Obviously
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:42 AM

C# generates virtual calls to non-virtual methods as well

Sometime back I had posted about a case where non-virtual calls are used for virtual methods and promised posting about the reverse scenario. This issue of C# generating callvirt IL instruction even for non-virtual method calls keeps coming back on C#
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