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WCF Communication Objects states Cheat Sheet

WCF is all about communication objects – channels, listeners, factories, all implement the ICommunicationObject interface (some through the CommunicationObject class). This provides a base implementation for the basic state machine states and transitions Read More...
Posted Friday, October 30, 2009 11:16 PM by OanaPlaton | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Women’s Leadership and Development Conference

Every other year, Microsoft organizes a conference for women. Why? Because it recognizes that women more than men feel the need to get inspired by listening to some sessions oriented towards the emotional space and, more to the point, women feel the need Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:04 PM by OanaPlaton | 0 Comments

ETW (Event Tracing For Windows) – what it is and useful tools

Event Tracing for Windows is the standard way to trace used by all features of Windows. Like the article Improve Debugging And Performance Tuning With ETW explains, ETW is “a general-purpose, high-speed tracing facility provided by the operating system. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:55 AM by OanaPlaton | 0 Comments
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Design patterns: How do you notify components about events that happen in different components?

I recently had to solve these kind of requirements: some components execute actions and at some point in time need to notify other components that certain events happened, so the other components can execute code related to these events. For example, Read More...
Posted Friday, July 03, 2009 1:57 AM by OanaPlaton | 0 Comments
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.NET Framework 4.0 implements WS-Discovery

The .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 are live. If you haven’t tried the bits, do so and give the team feedback . There are some very cool features added – just take a look at the highlights . On the Communications front, Windows Communication Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:52 PM by OanaPlaton | 1 Comments

Performance: Don't trust, don't make assumptions... Measure!

When it comes to performance, there's a hard lesson I had to learn: never trust anyone, measure for yourself! Don't trust the gurus, the MSDN documentation, the technical fellow that wrote the code. Instead, do some simple performance measurements to Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 5:25 AM by OanaPlaton | 2 Comments

Fix Corrupted Performance Counters

As part of the project I am working on, I had to create performance counter categories and counters for monitoring and debugging purposes. So I wrote the code that installs the counters and everything worked as expected on my machines. Then someone told Read More...
Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 10:37 PM by OanaPlaton | 1 Comments

Performance Comparison: Regex versus string operations

I consider regular expressions one of the most useful features ever. I use them a lot, not only when coding, but also when editing files and instead of copy and paste. I find the Visual Studio Find/Replace feature with regular expressions really useful Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 04, 2009 9:25 PM by OanaPlaton | 3 Comments

Visual Studio Templates – Add New Item to project

Using Visual Studio to write code requires creating a project (well, you can use Visual Studio without a project, but you won’t get very much past Notepad functionality – there’s not even Intellisense on files) . After creating / opening an existing project, Read More...
Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 2:24 AM by OanaPlaton | 1 Comments
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Registry Editor Favorites

The registry editor has a very useful functionality that many people overlook – the favorites. You can add the keys you are interested in the favorites category, so that you can access them later with one click. To add a key, navigate to it, then choose Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:37 PM by OanaPlaton | 0 Comments
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Problems with CLR Windows Error Reporting (WER) Integration

Like I mentioned in my previous article , CLR integrates WER in order to be able to add managed-specific information in the reports generated on crashes (if you are not familiar with Windows Error Reporting, read more in the article Windows Error Reporting Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:07 PM by OanaPlaton | 0 Comments

Windows Error Reporting and CLR integration

Windows Error Reporting (WER) monitors and collects information on crashes and hangs on Windows platforms newer that Windows XP. The information collected can be sent to a server for investigation (read more in my previous WER article ). When creating Read More...
Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 6:10 PM by OanaPlaton | 2 Comments
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Windows Error Reporting (WER) for developers

Windows Error Reporting is the replacement for Dr. Watson on OSs newer that Windows XP. It monitors failures and collects useful information that can be sent to a server to be analyzed (if the user allows it). This feature helped Microsoft to fix a lot Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:56 AM by OanaPlaton | 2 Comments
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Zoom in: what’s wrong with my process?

There are situations when we want to look closely at a process that is running in production environment – when a crash happens or when it just behaves badly (consumes too much memory, too much CPU, it hangs etc). There are multiple tools that can tell Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:35 PM by OanaPlaton | 1 Comments
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Make your site pretty: major CSS headache

Is it just me or most developers like to implement functionality and logic for their websites and freak out when they have to make it pretty? I personally hate writing style sheets – CSS may sound easy, and I understand the concepts, but don't ask me Read More...
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 8:27 PM by OanaPlaton | 1 Comments
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