Nikhil's Blog

This is a good article on performance tips of the .NET Framework Base Class Library - http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/CLRInsideOut/default.aspx . I learned something new about lock-free tracing and DateTime comparisons. The great numerical Read More...

Today I attended an interesting talk on Performance Signatures by Rico Mariani . According to his experience, a high proportion of performance related problems are due to: Bad choice of algorithm Dependencies we take on other frameworks or platforms. Read More...

A good read for developers: How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary. Check it out here: http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html#id2794476 . Other books that I think every developer should read: As the name Read More...

I recently took a Debugging class by John Robbins where he mentioned how he used the task manager to identify handle leaks in debugging one of the ASP.NET applications for a client. I had never used this feature of the task manager to understand what Read More...

Currently, I am working on the ListObject control, one of the view controls shipped as part of VSTO 2005 . It allows an office developer to perform complex databinding in an excel worksheet. When I started working on ListObject, I realized I needed to Read More...