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Multi-cpu systems and multicore processors are becoming ever more common, but writing code that actually takes advantage of those multiple processors is still considered arcane and unintuitive. In the October issue of MSDN Magazine, Daan Leijen and Judd Read More...
A reader asks: I'm using locks in my application to synchronize work on a bunch of threads. Unfortunately, I'm doing something incorrectly and my threads seem to just stop sometimes. I think I'm running into deadlocks, but I'm not sure how to find them. Read More...
No matter what type of long-running processes are involved—whether getting large results from a database, making asynchronous Web service calls, or any number of other potentially intensive operations—making your application more responsive is guaranteed Read More...
Continuing his development of a mouse and mouse environment simulation called EEK!, in the October issue of MSDN Magazine, Stan Lippman explains how he's creating the XML document describing the environment . Stan also describes another way of incorporating Read More...
Workflows are meant to coordinate systems and people, and that means communicating beyond the boundaries of the workflow instance itself. Communication is a key component of most workflows. In the September issue of MSDN Magazine, Matt Milner takes you Read More...
You need to generate some random numbers in your application and started to use System.Random, but a colleague suggests using RNGCryptoServiceProvider instead. Do you retool your code to use RNGCryptoServiceProvider, or is there a better way to proceed? Read More...
With Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) you can host WCF-based services in any Windows process, including a console application, a Windows Forms app, or a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) UI application. You can self-host WCF services in Windows Read More...
The .NET Framework System.Net namespace gives you programmatic access to a number of key networking protocols, such as HTTP and SMTP. In the September issue of MSDN Magazine, we'll look at some new and enhanced networking features that are planned for Read More...
ScriptManager is a server-side control that sits on your Web Form and enables the core of ASP.NET AJAX . In the September issue of MSDN Magazine, Ben Rush explains how the ScriptManager control represents a central component of ASP.NET AJAX, and shows Read More...
In the August issue of MSDN Magazine, Juval Lowy presents a declarative security framework for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that makes security configuration closer to the simplicity you'll find in other aspects of WCF configuration. This declarative Read More...
 
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