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.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Updated
A while back I blogged about the .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster... We made a few tweaks and updated it, including making it available in more formats. Download Links: Full XPS Split XPS PDF Tiled PDF Enjoy! Read More...
Posted 12 January 08 03:43 by BradA | 21 Comments   
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Source code for CLR\BCL 2.0
Great news... Rotor V2.0 ships ... I have found Rotor a great way to look at (mostly) the real source code from the CLR and BCL to see what is really going on under the covers. Read More...
Posted 23 March 06 08:40 by BradA | 5 Comments   
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You gotta love the little things in .NET Framework 2.0: File.ReadAllLines()
I was recently reviewing some samples and I ran across one that made me really appreciate the work we did in BCL in .NET Framework 2.0... it maybe a very trivial thing, but it really improves the code. The code sample in question looked something like: Read More...
Posted 27 December 05 03:44 by BradA | 16 Comments   
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PowerCollections for V2.0 RTM
Peter just posted a version of the Power Collections for V2.0 . I’d love to hear your feedback on these and the general model. Our goal with helping out Peter and Wintellect with power collections was to provide a first class extension of the existing Read More...
Posted 13 November 05 09:51 by BradA | 17 Comments   
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Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters
When in a domain, a machine’s name is limited to 15 characters, but in a workgroup a machine name can be much longer. However, as one of our internal customers noticed, Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters. This is because Environment.ComputerName Read More...
Posted 10 August 05 09:28 by BradA | 6 Comments   
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Cool Console Game
You thought Space Invaders! was a cool sample, check out this one: It is a VB 2005 Console based game that rocks. http://www.heroicadventure.com/ It reminds me of sitting in my Dad’s lab at NCSU playing Castle on one of the consoles connected to a mainframe.. Read More...
Posted 16 June 05 10:11 by BradA | 8 Comments   
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Showing Progress in a Console Windows
Recently I needed to show some progress indicator on some long running console application. I recall the good old days of my college days with console based SMTP clients such as elm and pine … as I recall these clients showed progress via a simple ASCII Read More...
Posted 11 June 05 04:41 by BradA | 25 Comments   
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Fun with Equality
Isn’t it funny how the “easiest” concepts can be the most complicated? A reader sent me the following quiz to help us appreciate the subtlies of equality in the system. Luckily he gave me the answers as well… ;-) Consider the following program: object Read More...
Posted 03 April 05 10:51 by BradA | 9 Comments   
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Why does my WeakReference throw an InvalidOperationException when I use it from my finalizer?
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 objects, Read More...
Posted 28 April 04 02:42 by BradA | 6 Comments   
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Fun with Generics in Whidbey
I thought I’d share a little of my “app building” fun with you folks. Just for giggles I wrote a command line tool that lists the most frequent commentors on CLR related blogs. Most of the code is screen scraping and not that interesting Read More...
Posted 02 March 04 09:46 by BradA | 15 Comments   
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Reflection and Generics
I spent some time last week working on a tool we use internally to print out the C# “header file” view of assemblies. We use it as part of the WinFX API reviews to give an overview of that the API looks like. I am still in the middle of updating, Read More...
Posted 27 January 04 10:34 by BradA | 11 Comments   
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