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brownfield development – other ideas?

If you haven’t been following it over the last couple of months, we’ve been running a series of articles about brownfield development – authored by James Kovacs , Kyle Baley , and Donald Belcham .  The big idea here is that rather than have yet another Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:21 PM by hdierking | 3 Comments

Thread Management and other CLR TidBits

Every month, the CLR team gives us insight into the core of managed code, .NET programming best practices, technologies underlying the CLR and .NET Framework, and other tips and suggestions. In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Erika Fuentes Read More...
Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 2:49 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

.NET Matters: False Sharing in Parallel Programming

There’s no programming model that magically eliminates all concurrency-related issues, so understanding how memory and caches work is still important to write efficient parallel programs. In the October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Stephen Toub, Igor Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 4:32 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

CLR Inside Out: Unhandled Exception Processing In The CLR

Unhandled exception processing shouldn't be a mystery. It's actually quite useful since it gives a crashing application an opportunity to perform last-minute diagnostic logging about what went wrong. In the September 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Gaurav Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:59 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Foundations: Workflow Tips

In the August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Matt Milner covers several topics regarding development with Windows Workflow Foundation , some that are intended to address specific reader questions, such as how to safely share a persistence database across Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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.NET Matters: Asynchronous I/O with WebClient

System.IO.File is a handy helper class for reading and writing data, but its methods support only synchronous operation. Is there an easy way to provide File’s functionality for asynchronous file I/O? In the July 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Stephen Read More...
Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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.NET Terrarium 2.0 source code released

Remember .NET Terrarium, the interactive game meant to introduce .NET development techniques? Well, the Windows SDK team has released the source code for . NET Terrarium 2.0 on CodePlex . You can read more about this release on the Windows SDK blog and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:08 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Data Binding and WPF

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) offers excellent support for managing the display and editing of complex data. In the December 2007 edition of MSDN Magazine , John Papa did a great job of explaining essential WPF data binding concepts . In the July Read More...
Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 2:55 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Concurrent Affairs: Simplified APM With The AsyncEnumerator

In the November issue of MSDN Magazine, Jeffrey Richter demonstrates some recent additions to the C# programming language that make working with the APM significantly easier. In the June issue , Jeffrey introduces his AsyncEnumerator class , which intelligently Read More...
Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Foundations: Bitmaps And Pixel Bits

A combination of the retained-mode graphics system and notification mechanisms such as dependency properties unleash the flexibility and power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, allowing these objects to be targets of data bindings and animations. Read More...
Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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A Survey of .NET Languages And Paradigms

Hundreds of languages target Windows either directly through the Win32 API or through the CLR, and more are being built every day. While you've probably heard about many of these new languages and language paradigms, you may be wondering what it all means. Read More...
Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments

Microsoft Robotics Studio

Microsoft Robotics Studio is more than just a way to play with robots. Robotics Studio allows you to build service-based applications for a wide range of hardware devices. In the June 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Sara Morgan covers the Robotics Studio Read More...
Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 1 Comments
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CLR Inside Out: the Large Object Heap

The CLR garbage collector divides objects into small and large categories. When an object is large, some attributes associated with it become more significant than if the object is small. With the June 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Maoni Stephens explains Read More...
Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 11:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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CLR Inside Out: More Measuring for Performance

To reliably create high-performance programs, you need to understand the performance of the individual components you use. Thus, measurement has to be an integral part of the design process. In the April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Vance Morrison showed Read More...
Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Foundations: Loading Workflow Models in WF

Workflows in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) can be modeled in several ways, and this flexibility is a powerful feature that allows for modeling tools that target different audiences. In the May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Matt Milner explains two Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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