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19 March 2008
Object.ReferenceEquals(valueVar, valueVar) will always return false

The ReferenceEquals method is usually used to determine if two objects are the same instance. But you need to be a bit cautious when you use it with Value Types. Consider the following code. static void Main( string [] args) { int valueVar = 15; if (Object.ReferenceEquals(valueVar, Read More...

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Filed under: C#

 

19 December 2007
Adding Icons to your custom IIS 7.0 Manager UI Modules

There is a lot of enthusiasm around building IIS UI modules that show up in the IIS Manager. The extensibility model that IIS 7.0 ships with is great and provides a lot of opportunity for developers to come up with nifty modules. One thing that developers Read More...

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Filed under: IIS, .NET, C#

 

05 December 2007
Preventing ildasm from disassembling your assembly

The MSIL Disassembler (ildasm.exe) is a neat tool that can be used to view the MSIL code of a .Net assembly/dll. Many of you should have used it to peek into assemblies while debugging/troubleshooting. I use it a lot to check assembly namespaces and stuff Read More...

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Filed under: Debug, .NET, C#

 

15 November 2007
SOS your Visual Studio

If you as a developer are interested in taking quick peeks into memory allocation you can load SOS (Son Of Strike) in Visual Studio to do that. SOS is written as a WinDbg extension but can load in Visual Studio and do most of the stuff. To begin with Read More...

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Filed under: VisualStudio, Debug, C#

 

30 November 2006
A tryst with MSIL

Any ASP.NET developer should be knowing that when his/her .NET application is compiled, the high-level code written in C# or Visual Basic .NET is compiled into the intermediate language MSIL. It is this MSIL that the Common Language Runtime (CLR) actually Read More...

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