In my last post I posted readerWriterDemo.cs which is an implementation of a Reader-Writer lock. I held it up as an example of good design of a concurrent data structure. I want to now show you a bit of what my thinking was when it was designed and what...

In my article What Every Dev Must Know About Multithreaded Apps I discuss the fundamental principles of using locks correctly. In that article I strongly encourage the use of reader-writer locks because these locks create the protection you need (insuring...

In my last blog , I demonstrated how to use the .NET SOS.DLL extension DLL in the Visual Studio. In this entry I will use the capabilities of this extension DLL to dig into the way the .NET framework handles interface dispatch. As with all my blog entries...

In my last blog I talked a bit about how you go about using Visual Studio to look at "Release" code so that you can find out what code is actually generated by a particular high level programming construct. As a quick recap the tricky part of insuring...