Under The Hood - Matt Pietrek

Being the good dogfooder I am, I'm running Vista in x64 mode. My current project involves moving over an existing web service to the new machine. As part of this, I've installed all the latest internal VS2005 goodies relating to service packs and Vista...

In a previous post , I mentioned the new slim reader/writer locks in Vista. A kind reader just sent me a note that Joe Duffy's blog recently added a nifty history of the feature and it's underlying implementation , including how a single lock can be used...

OK... It's not a super-duper juicy revelation, but it's exciting to me. Raymond Chen has finally gone public with his book: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/12/07/1233002.aspx Many, many moons ago I was contacted by AW and asked to...