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August 2008 - Posts

Team Foundation Server tool dump workspace details

I juggle around with a lot of workspaces. The reason is .NET Compact Framework is consumed in a whole bunch of things like Windows Mobile, Xbox, Zune, Nokia and most of them are on different source branches. On top of this active feature work happens
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Obsession with desktop continues

This is my new office setup. I have been pushing around a lot of code lately and felt I needed more real-estate to effectively do what I'm doing. So I hooked up another monitor. All  3 are standard HP LP1965 19" monitors. However, since none
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Back to Basic: Using a System.Threading.Interlocked is a great idea

I just saw some code which actually takes a lock to do a simple set operation. This is bad because taking locks are expensive and there is an easy alternative. The System.Threading.Interlocked class and its members can get the same job done and much faster.
 
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