April 2004 - Posts

Enumerating over arrays with for vs. foreach
29 April 04 10:45 AM | ricom | 12 Comments   

Brad Abrams forwarded an interesting question to me this morning Questions: What is the difference between enumerating an array using for versus foreach ? What is the recommended practice and why? I did a quick analysis for him which he has just posted Read More...

Filed under: performance, design advice

Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
28 April 04 07:13 PM | ricom | 15 Comments   

I'm happy to announce that the Patterns and Practices group has made the release version of "Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability" available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/scalenet.asp Read More...

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Performance Planning
22 April 04 04:05 PM | ricom | 6 Comments   

I whipped up this guide to help people on internal teams take some of our larger goals and think about them as they apply to their own area. I thought a lot of the advice was generally applicable to managed library authors so I rewrote it for a wider Read More...

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Shipping Software
20 April 04 09:09 PM | ricom | 3 Comments   

Many years ago I was invited to give a guest lecture at the University of British Columbia and today I happened to be looking through some material from that time and I was reminded of the talk. My notes are just point form slides and there's supposed Read More...

Filed under: ramblings