Registry Permission Basics RegistryKey.CreateSub Key(string, RegistryKeyPermissionCheck, RegistrySecurity) RegistryKey. Open Sub Key(string, RegistryKeyPermissionCheck, RegistryRights) The fact that there are three different ‘security’...

This is another post to quickly cover an question that I saw recently on one of our usergroups... How do we create a process and "wait" for it begin running for a finite amount of time and if the process is not up and running until then timeout the...

The most expensive parts of reading resources are probing for satellite assemblies and deserializing objects. The more you can avoid having the ResourceManager do either of those two tasks, the faster your resource reads will be. In this post I'll cover...

We get a lot of suggestions on how to improve our documentation. it's certainly an area we take seriously, and plan on investing a lot of time and effort in in the upcoming releases of the .NET Framework. There's an opportunity to be a part of this...

The .NET Framework Process class let's you access various aspects (or properties) of a system process. Among these properties are things like the process id (or pid), the process name and the modules (.dll or .exe) it loads. This blog entry, my first...

This posting will touch once again the Process class and the WaitForInputIdle method. This method contains 2 overloads, one that takes no parameters and another one that will take an int as its single parameter. The confusion will start exactly here...

For anyone wanting to generate an entry point using CodeDom, there's a type called CodeEntryPointMethod. In VB, it generates the familiar Public Shared Sub Main() . However, CodeEntryPointMethod is limited in that most providers do not support setting...

Over the past couple of weeks, there have been a number of questions as to the best practices in coding. A couple of question in this area were related to casting and aliases. One example of casting questions that have come in is which is better: ...

In my introduction to tracing ( http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/03/15/396431.aspx ), I outlined the basics of how to use TraceSources, TraceListeners, and SourceSwitches to trace the flow of an application. I also covered how to configure Whidbey...

In my introduction to tracing ( http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/03/15/396431.aspx ), I outlined the basics of how to use TraceSources, TraceListeners, and SourceSwitches to trace the flow of an application. I also covered how to configure Whidbey...

In my introduction to tracing ( http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/03/15/396431.aspx ), I outlined the basics of how to use TraceSources, TraceListeners, and SourceSwitches to trace the flow of an application. I also covered how to configure Whidbey...

Recently, I have heard a number of requests for the addition of a Set<T> class to the System.Collection.Generic namespace. Basic implementation of this class that implements only ICollection<T> would cover all the etremely vital operations...

I just thought I would say hi to the outside world. I’m an SDE intern here in the BCL working on two new features for all to enjoy: Pipe Streams and Memory Mapped Files (that’s right, I do more than just get people coffee [;)] ). The plan is to release...

Well, I tried to solicit email from you with any cool ideas you have for Collections, ServiceProcesses, and Diagnostics, but that front has been a bit quiet. Thats quite ok though, because there is something else I would like to touch on today. My main...

This Friday marks the end of my first week here as a program manager on the BCL team, and the areas which I will be overseeing are System.Collections , System.ServiceProcesses , as well as part of System.Diagnostics . Soon enough I will be able to cover...

All, with the upcoming release of V2.0, we're really interested to see who's using what features: in production code, in demos, in code you've written for fun, whatever it is! I'm specifically looking for feedback on the Console.ReadKey() and Console...

Just to remind you, I’m a tester on the BCL team (part of my testing responsibilities include the IO feature area). I wanted to share some pain that we’ve gone through in investigating directory modification failures with the hope that I can spare you...

There’s been a number of questions about Nullable performance: is doing a HasValue check performant? Here's some code which we think better mimics what your old code (scenario 1 and 2) would have looked like, vs. what we suggest you do now. Assuming in...

One of the cool new features in Whidbey is a GZipStream class, which supports GNU's zip utility (gzip). For anyone with a Unix background, you've had to come across .tar.gz or .tgz files as you deal with the tedium that accompany downloading new source...

A customer recently asked a good question about some of our new reliability features in Whidbey: There are calls to Thread.BeginCriticalRegion() inside the Hashtable class. Can you clarify why they are used and how this is different from RuntimeHelpers...

Intro ResourceReader is a useful type for quickly enumerating through resources in a resources file, but it has trouble if it cannot deserialize one of the resources. This limitation is compensated for, in v2.0 of the framework, with the GetResourceData...

The BCL Team has here published new official guidance for using Strings in .NET 2.0. It is highly recommended that .NET developers use these new best practices and new Framework types when developing on the second major version of the Framework. The...

I decided to have a little fun with one of the new Console features. I wrote a quick program that will load a text file containing a series of {freqeuency, duration} pairs and play it using Console.Beep(). The program loads the integer data into a Song...

So the CLR team will have 3-4 representatives at TechEd Orlando this year, and if you're heading to teched, we would lvoe to meet you, hear about your .NET experiences, and learn about what it is your building, and where the CLR is helping, and where...

Have you ever wondered how we define a breaking change? The document titled 'breaking changes in a managed world', available from the BCL Website formalizes the definitions worth discussion around breaking changes. Importantly, because nothing in this...