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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:10 PM

MSDN webcasts on 64-bit platform computing

Here are some really cool MSDN webcasts related to 64-bit computing . If you are getting started with 64-bit platforms or want to know a lot more about them, I am sure you would find these to be useful. · MSDN Webcast: Welcome to 64-bit Windows Computing:
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Monday, April 24, 2006 6:48 PM

Floating points - IEEE-754 Floating Point numbers

I found these blog entries from Prem to be quite exhaustive. So posting the links here just in case you would want to know more … http://blogs.msdn.com/premk/archive/2005/12/03/499776.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/premk/archive/2006/02/25/539198.aspx
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Monday, April 24, 2006 6:21 PM

What is WoW, Windows on Windows, WoW64, WoWx86 emulator … in 64-bit computing platform

Before we discuss this, it is important for the users to understand a few facts about 64-bit platform offerings . 64-bit computing (from a Microsoft perspective) comes in two variants · x64 ( EM64T / AMD64 ) · Itanium ( EPIC ) Both, Windows Server 2003
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Monday, April 03, 2006 3:14 PM

64-bit Visual J# Redistributable TAP goes live

If you have been reading my blogs and wondering that why off late I have been discussing a lot of advantages, issues and other stuff related to 64-bit computing – here is the answer. All this while (since the Whidbey release) the Visual J# team has been
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Monday, March 20, 2006 8:13 PM

Dual Core Vs Dual Processor Vs Hyper Threading

As we start talking of high performance computing, 64-bit platform offerings etc. some of the buzz words that come into play are dual processor , dual core and Hyper Threading . I thought it would be a good idea to find and write about what these technologies
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Monday, March 20, 2006 3:47 PM

Some interesting reads on 64-bit performance benchmarks

Here are some of the sites that I have really found good and informative about the different performance reports for 64-bit platforms (from a MS technology centric perspective). 64-bit Performance Benchmark: .NET 2.0 and IBM Websphere 6.0 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/java/compare/benchmark64/default.aspx
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:12 PM

Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit application development on .NET Framework

This blog aims at clarifying the issues which 32-bit developers might be having when they start migrating to the 64-bit platform. My observations below would be concentrated towards the .NET Framework related technologies. Most of the things I discuss
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Monday, March 06, 2006 11:20 PM

Cross compilation in the 64-bit .NET Framework world for platform specific features

In today’s world, a lot of applications are written targeting both the 32-bit and/or the 64-bit platform. Using cross compilation , users can now create applications using the .NET Framework which are platform agnostic. This is achieved by the data in
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:59 PM

Executing applications/scripts at User Log-on on Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

I wanted to execute a script/application on my comp when a user logs on to adjust some of the settings specific to the user. I did not know how to go about it and had to scratch a little bit to find how I could achieve the desired result. I am posting
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:10 PM

64 bit technology, Processors, Operating Systems available today

There are a whole lot of names by which the 64-bit technology is famous. I just wanted to get a comprehensive list of the same available at one place for my own use. Here is what I found out when I searched for the various names/technologies/OS’s available
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:14 PM

The x64 Vs AMD64 Vs EM64T Vs Itanium Riddle – What is what?

While I tried to learn more about the 64-bit processors, here is what I found out. There are two different sets of architectures present in the world today. The first is called the x64 architecture processors, which is based on the AMD64 and/or Extended
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:35 PM

Is 64-bit a superior platform as compared to the 32-bit platform?

A lot of people, from different walks of life meet me and often ask, that now, with the availability of 64-bit platforms, should they only go and buy 64-bit machines? Is the 32-bit platform not old and slow? With the availability of 64-bit platforms they
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Friday, February 17, 2006 8:32 PM

Is 64-bit platform always better than 32-bit?

I recently did some preliminary performance testing on the 64-bit platform Vs that on 32-bit. Here are the results of the same Calculation Speed (milliseconds) Memory Copy (milliseconds) Measure x86 x64 IA64 x86 x64 IA64 Iterations 100000 5.51 0.31 0.7
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:51 PM

Customizing Menu Options in Visual Studio

This is one of the cool features that is offered in Visual Studio 2005 . I came across this recently, when one of our customers was unable to find the location of the Java Language Conversion Assistant in the normal File -> Open -> Convert... menu
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Friday, December 23, 2005 1:31 PM

Accessing Java Objects from within C#

We often hear back from customers regarding this interesting problem. I am just throwing a perspective on this. Here is what we heard from one of our customers: I'm trying to get my organization to move to C# as the primary development tool, but I have
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