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TIP: Try right clicking on the filetabs in VS 2005

"Open containing folder" and "Copy full path" are menu items I use daily. Image from a guided tour of Visual Studio 2005 . Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:05 AM by jfoscoding | 4 Comments

Rule of thumb for System.Drawing

A friend of mine ran into this the other day. If you call a method to get a handle some sort of System.Drawing object, you may be creating an object that needs to be cleaned up through P/Invoke or some other function call. Bitmap.GetHIcon - requires p/invoking Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:02 AM by jfoscoding | 4 Comments
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Tim resurfaces with another control

I enjoy talking to Tim Dawson quite a bit; we both know that making the decision to build your own menu is not one to be taken lightly. He's been busy lately . Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:38 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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How can I figure out how much goo my object is holding onto?

Previously, we figured out a way to eek out class size information from strike. This is kind of interesting, but you also might want a way to know the size of everything your object instance is holding onto. There is another strike command called "ObjSize", Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 2:35 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

How can I figure out how large my class is?

Phil asks: "Your last post mentions using Marshal.SizeOf to get the byte size of a type that can be marshalled. I would like to know the amount of space taken up by an object that cannot be marshalled. For example a custom control, so I can then spend Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:02 AM by jfoscoding | 5 Comments

Are you familiar with [ThreadStatic]?

If you're stuffing anything in thread local storage, you might be interested in the performance comparison between Thread.SetData and [ThreadStatic] . ThreadStatic is super-cool, if you have a static variable, you can make it static "per-thread" by placing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:05 PM by jfoscoding | 12 Comments

Steve's all excited about SQL Everywhere

Steve stopped by earlier in the week to tell me about his latest projects. He's really enthusiastic about SQL Everywhere, especially how lightweight it is to install. There's even support for adding it to your click-once application setup (that part had Read More...
Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 1:55 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
 
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