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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:59 PM

Remodel Marches On

Well, my house is half torn apart and the new parts are about half-built. There's not much to talk about here at work, as we're busy finishing off the last few bugs and getting everything up to snuff. The question in my mind is which will finish first,
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:48 PM

I've run out of ideas again

In case you haven't noticed, I've run out of ideas to write about. I'm sure there's still a few things I know that I haven't explained, btu I can't remember them... If you've been dying to know something about the C# compiler, ALink, CLR file formats,
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Friday, October 15, 2004 1:49 PM

Good post on running/writing/compiling managed binaries as 32-bit or 64-bit

How the OS Loader will force .Net v1.0/1.1 executables to run under WOW64 on a 64-Bit Machine (http://blogs.msdn.com/joshwil/archive/2004/10/15/243019.aspx) In General I think all of Josh's recent posts are worth a read. --Grant
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004 1:32 PM

Some Clarifications

In my previous post The problem with being second , it seems like there was a lot of confusion. I'm going to attempt to clarify some of that. The heart of that post was meant to point out that people/developers don't always how close or far they are from
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:56 AM

64bit versus 32bit

Please don't start a flame war over this. It is meant as more of a Dilbert-style post with just the slightest bit of real technical content. 64-bit machines are twice as fast as 32-bit machines because they have more bits. Believe it or not there are
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:00 AM

The problem with being second

First, hats off to the Mono team . I think they've done a great job at writing some great software, but also at proving that evil MS really does know how to produce a truly common language runtime that can be properly standardized and ported to other
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:46 AM

Shameless Plug

Personally I think the MS marketing team really did rop the ball. They we're so busy promoting .NET that when VC 7.0 (aka 2002) and VC 7.1 (2003) shipped they forgot to mention all the tons of cool purely-native improvements in the product. Well now in
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Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:16 AM

Trade-offs

It seems like a lot of the time we (as software developers) are forced to make trade-offs. Choosing between 2 algorithms that solve the same problem, but with different characteristics. Sometimes it's an easy choice: option #1 is O(1) and option #2 is
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Monday, July 19, 2004 1:39 PM

Why doesn't the C# compiler accept /resource:*.resources?

Well, here I am finally getting back to this. In my previous post on resources, I glossed over one issue. Not all managed resources are exactly what they seem. Specifically at the metadata/compiler level, there is a table that simply points to the resource
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:04 PM

Alignment

I've seen this come up in conversations a few times so I thought others might be interested in it too. First off, I think since the large majority of us use x86-based processors we forget that one day in our CS or EE class where they talked about alignment.
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Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:52 AM

Command-line Trivia

So many people have wondered why the C# compiler isn't smarter about some of it's command-line arguments. Here's a summary of the type of questions I hope to answer in this post: Why doesn't the C# compiler accept /reference:*.dll? Why doesn't the C#
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Wednesday, July 07, 2004 2:30 PM

Multi-file Assemblies: What and How

I intentionally left out the 'why' because only you as developer on your own product can decide why a given programming feature should or shouldn't be used. First the easy part: What Multi-file assemblies are simply assemblies that consist of more than
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Monday, June 28, 2004 10:46 AM

Exception Handling (Part 2 of 2)

Sorry it took so long to get to part 2. First up is the unwind info (I think it's the .XDATA, but don't quote me). Basically there is a set of opcode sequences that are allowed in the prologue and epilogue, and there is some info in the describes what
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Monday, June 21, 2004 5:10 PM

Exception Handling (Part 1 of 2)

Anybody that done any programming on .NET has probably used some EH at least once or twice. It all seems pretty natural and straight forward. Well, I'm glad we can fool so many of you into thinking it's easy. What follows is a gross-over-simplification
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Thursday, June 03, 2004 4:10 PM

Am I really this popular?

I've noticed a lot of my links come from searches (primarily google). Is that because I'm actually answering a lot of releavant information that people want to know? Is it possibly because I happen to use all the magic keywords so that google pushes me
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