This post is devoted to .NET Remoting , one of the technologies supported by our Distributed Services support team (though I should add that the volume of requests is not, and never has been, very high). WCF is being more and more widely adopted as the communication infrastructure of .NET applications...

Introduction I recently got questions from a couple of customers on the implications of using generic types (generics) in .NET on code bloat (also known as code explosion). This is a legitimate concern and let me explain why. Among the most popular programming languages, C++ was one of the first to provide...

Hello again. Today's case is pretty interesting, in my opinion, because it merges a number of different areas. We'll start from the analysis of a memory corruption to go to Runtime Callable Wrappers in the .NET CLR to finish with COM objects lifetime considerations. If all that sounds interesting, or...

Hi all,this is my first post after a LONG LONG time since I created the (so far empty) blog. I guess it is not by coincidence that last night it snowed in Milan . Let's get started with the case study at hand. In the Distributed Services team in Microsoft Developer Support we support technologies for...