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Immutability and ReadOnlyCollection<T>

I am a huge fan of read only/immutable collections and data. Hopefully the increased exposure through the blogosphere alerted users to the advantages of this type of programming for the appropriate scenarios. I wanted to discuss ReadOnlyCollection<T> Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:42 AM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

PipeSingleReaderNoLock

Previously we discussed a multi-thread safe queue like data structure using locks as an internal synchronization mechanism. This time we'll look at a version requiring no locks. In the previous version, locks were used to synchronize access to an underlying Read More...

Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 12:46 AM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

Tuples Part 7: Mutable Tuples

Part 6 left us with comparable tuples.  At this point, the Tuple class is functionally complete.  There will be a little more done with the debugability and overall fit into larger projects.  But otherwise it is sound.  Now the focus Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:56 AM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

Tuples Part 1

A tuple in computer science can be described as a set of name/value pairs. In some cases it can be described as simply a set of values that are accessible via an index [1]. Previously I discussed how to create a Tuple inside of PowerShell . This series Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:25 AM by Jared Parsons | 6 Comments