March 2008 - Posts

• Implications of the just in time nature of LINQ

  I love LINQ! I’ve found that much of the code I write involves manipulating collections in ways that can be very naturally expressed in LINQ. One interesting aspect of LINQ is that things are evaluated just in time as you enumerate over them. This can Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:30 PM by dancre | 4 Comments Filed under: .Net development

• Why does my computer need to tell me when I plug into the headphone jack?

  And, why is the icon so ugly? Read More... Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:16 PM by dancre | 9 Comments

• mstsc /console is now /admin in Vista SP1

  I find it kind of annoying that Vista SP1 switches the /console switch to /admin. I don't understand why they had to break this and couldn't keep the old switch working. There's a bit more info at: Nick MacKechnie : MSTSC /console switch in Windows Server Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:37 PM by dancre | 1 Comments Filed under: Vista

• Yield and usings - your Dispose may not be called!

  We ran into an interesting bug recently where a resource was being leaked because we weren't disposing of an IDisposable in some cases. Before I go any further I should state that the root bug is that the IDisposable hanging onto the resource should have Read More... Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 9:08 PM by dancre | 10 Comments Filed under: .Net development

• Josh Zana's perf blog

  One of my coworkers, Josh Zana, has started a perf blog . Josh has been the perf champion for the SkyDrive and FolderShare websites, and I've been really impressed by his passion about perf and the results. I hope to see lots of good posts coming up. Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:34 PM by dancre | 0 Comments

• FolderShare updates

  Yesterday, we released a new version of the FolderShare web site and client. My team worked on the web site, which you might guess from the similarity to SkyDrive. In case you aren't familiar with FolderShare, it's an application that lets you sync files Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:31 PM by dancre | 4 Comments Filed under: FolderShare