February 2008 - Posts

• Tip: Don't rely on environment variables for critical decisions

  I saw a mail this week asking how you can determine what bitness your process is running in, and one of the suggestions was to check for the PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 environment variable. If that variable exists, you know you're on 64 bit Windows in a 32 Read More... Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 6:35 PM by billwert | 0 Comments Filed under: General Stuff

• Use of SGEN.exe to avoid common XmlSerializer performance pitfalls

  This week, I encountered a test scenario which makes use of an XmlSerializer on it's startup path. Unfortunately, MSDN's documentation for the type is not clear on the performance impact of using an XmlSerializer. The documentation on introducing XML Read More... Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 11:01 AM by billwert | 1 Comments Filed under: Perf, startup, sgen