Brad Abrams

Several other folks have already mentioned it, but I wanted to join the gang… Improving Application Performance and Scalability Guide About the Guide: Improving Application Performance and Scalability guide integrates people, process...

Interesting question over an internal alias today… Questions: What is the difference between enumerating an array using for versus foreach ? What is the recommended practice and why? Here is an example: Assembly[] assemblies...

I love managed code… the benefits of the virtual execution environment are manifold and very impactful , but if I had to distill it all down to just one thing, just two words to describe why Microsoft is building the CLR, the .NET Framework, WinFX...

I saw this answer from Brian Grunkemeyer , a dev on the CLR team, recently… I thought it would generally useful… let me know what you think? A: The reason we throw an exception is pretty simple – WeakReferences are finalizable...

I bloged a while back about the Dr. Dobbs on Measuring API Usability . I just got permission from the nice folks at Dr. Dobbs to post the article publicly for your reading pleasure. Any teams at Microsoft you think I should print off a copy and...

This weekend Kit George and I were talking about how fun it would be to host a BoF at TechEd where we let customers really unload on us. And today I see that Kit just posted it here (Click on TechEd 2004 then proposed topics then page 4). We will have...

As some of you with the Whidbey preview bits have no doubt noticed, we introduced set of generic collection classes in System.Collections.Generic. Far from just making generic versions of the current collections, we took the time to revisit how we really...

Continuing in the series on sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 here are some of the annotations on the System.ArrayList class. JM The IndexOf(string , int , int) method used to have...

We have a very cool report we run every week over the entire .NET Framework that shows which members were obsoleted. As I was reviewing that list, I thought that this would be great information to get out to customers right away. After all if you are...

We got some great feedback from this entry on DateTime. The dev lead for the BCL took time to post to my comments, but I thought I’d put them into the mainfeed as I think they are generally interesting. I am a colleague of Brad's and I'm the...

While we are on the subject on interop , I noticed that Sonja Keserovic ( PDC talk) will be heading to the WinDays conference on the Adriatic coast! If you are in the area, it is totally worth checking out her talk. She may even do it in Croatian....

Adam Nathan spent sometime over the weekend putting up this little site pinvoke.net . It is a very cool Wiki for Win32 PInvoke signatures… I can’t wait to see what the community does with this! Cool -- Charlie Kindel picked it up as...

Awhile back I got a Rio Cali MP3 player , overall I really like it… the controls are nice, the built in FM radio is great… But there is one problem… No support from audible.com . In an attempt to keep control over the media, audible...

There was a thread recently over the CLR perf alias that I thought I’d share. One of the WinFX developers asks if there is any perf differences between these two classes: public class Foo1 { public static int Value = 42; } ...

If so you should check out this KB- Information about designing Office XP add-ins and Office 2003 add-ins by using the .NET Framework . The CLR interop team, office folks and others I am sure worked closely to get this information together… Hope...

I am a little surprised we don’t get this question more often given the java story around buffered IO… but it came up today on an internal perf alias: Question: Is there any benefit in using a BufferedStream class over a FileStream...

The SLAR on System.Array Continuing in the series on sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 here are some of the annotations and a sample on the System.List class. BA Notice that we used...

This is hilarious , even more so because most of them seem real. Signs of the Times presentation is a 29 slide collection of confusing signs sent in by people just like you. Be careful out there! [via This Is Broken ]

This came up on an internal alias recently…. Nothing earth shattering here, but I figured it might help someone googling for an answer someday… Hey, if it did, drop me a comment and let me know about it… Question: I just want...

There was a recent question over an internal alias the clarify the struct usage guidelines and I thought you’d find that data helpful…. The API designer was confused about what 2 and 4 really mean. 1. Act like primitive types 2. Have...

A reader asks: We have an issue with the DateTime data type using serialization across timezones. All works well where we are interested in both the date and time. However, when the Date portion is of interest only, for example Birthday, (not many...

About two weeks ago I did another session of my two day class on designing .NET Class Libraries for internal folks mostly building WinFX and similar frameworks. You can find notes from past sessions here , here , here , here , here , and here . The two...

I just got this months issue of Dr. Dobbs and I notice that Steven Clarke has got a great article on Measuring API Usability . Unfortunately, it does not appear to be available electronically. I will post a link if I can find one, but the good news is...

We have a once in a decade opportunity with WinFX to build the platform that applications for the next 10+ years will be built on. We have tons of things we need to get right the first time with WinFX. The CLR team looking for someone with 5+ years experience...

I thought I’d share a bit of this thread we are having now over a large internal alias… As always your comments welcome: Questions: I have an interface (IFooExtension) which has shipped. This interface is public, documented and used...