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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:42 AM

Finalizers and Thread local storage

Writing finalizers is generally tricky. In the msdn documentation for finalizers the following limitations are mentioned. The exact time when the finalizer executes during garbage collection is undefined The finalizers of two objects are not guaranteed
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Monday, April 20, 2009 10:42 AM

What post are you known for?

I was just listening to Scot Hanselman’s podcast where he interviews Joel. They talk about how most bloggers get known for one post. E.g. Joel is known for “ The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode
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Friday, April 17, 2009 10:42 AM

.NET Code Pitching

The word pitch can have many meanings, but in case of the code pitching it is used in the sense of “to throw away”. The desktop CLR never throws away or pitches native code that it JITs. However, the .NET Compact Framework CLR supports code pitching due
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:42 AM

Multiple calls to GC.ReRegisterForFinalize

What happens when there are multiple calls to GC.ReRegisterForFinalize for the same object? Consider the following C# code class MyClass { ~MyClass() { Console.WriteLine("~MyClass"); } } class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { MyClass
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:42 AM

.NET Compact Framework MemMaker

“ Glen recently discovered that by keeping his application’s EXE empty and putting all the forms, code, resources, and data in managed DLLs, he reduced the amount of virtual memory his app uses inside its slot while at the same time taking advantage of
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Monday, April 13, 2009 10:42 AM

Object Resurrection using GC.ReRegisterForFinalize

I have been thinking about writing this post for some time, but Easter weekend provided the right context to do so. When I first encountered GC.ReRegisterForFinalize I was a bit baffled. The context help “ Requests that the system call the finalizer for
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:42 AM

Technical Presentation Tip

I’m no Scot Hanselman , but even then I guess I can share at least one tip for delivering technical presentation that has worked very well for me. At the very beginning of your presentation always have a slide clearly calling out what the attendees will
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Monday, April 06, 2009 10:42 AM

Floating point operations in .NET Compact Framework on WinCE+ARM

There has been a some confusion on how .NETCF handles floating point operations. The major reason for this confusion is due to the fact that the answer differs across the platforms NETCF supports (e.g. S60/Xbox/Zune/WinCE). I made a post on this topic
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