December 2006 - Posts

• Fun with Vista (IIS7) and ASP.NET

  Being the good dogfooder I am, I'm running Vista in x64 mode. My current project involves moving over an existing web service to the new machine. As part of this, I've installed all the latest internal VS2005 goodies relating to service packs and Vista Read More... Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:45 PM by Matt Pietrek | 1 Comments

• A nice intro to Keyed Events and Slim Reader/Writer locks

  In a previous post , I mentioned the new slim reader/writer locks in Vista. A kind reader just sent me a note that Joe Duffy's blog recently added a nifty history of the feature and it's underlying implementation , including how a single lock can be used Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:06 PM by Matt Pietrek | 0 Comments

• At last I can break the silence

  OK... It's not a super-duper juicy revelation, but it's exciting to me. Raymond Chen has finally gone public with his book: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/12/07/1233002.aspx Many, many moons ago I was contacted by AW and asked to be one Read More... Posted Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:29 PM by Matt Pietrek | 1 Comments