In .NET 2.0 and above the SyncRoot was removed from the Dictionary and
Hastable classes which meant you can't create thread-safe versions of
these anymore....
0 replies - 2563 views - 06/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in Tips and Tricks
Without any physical data access layer, there's no way to
build abstractions on top of it. So, in this part of this series we'll
take a look at some very...
0 replies - 1796 views - 06/24/08 by bdesmet in News
When I first read about weak references in .NET more than 5 years ago, my first thought was to use it for Caching. The concept was
already present in Java...
1 replies - 2237 views - 06/23/08 by raasiel in News
Everyone wants their application to be backward
compatible and if the application is based on a plug-in based
architecture then such a feature can be a nice...
0 replies - 2039 views - 06/21/08 by raasiel in News
I was making this WPF based application on weekends
and wanted it to have a gel like look. I did not want to create a new
control instead I wanted to make sure...
0 replies - 6853 views - 06/20/08 by raasiel in News
With much fanfare Apple announced the availability of the iPhone SDK.
I downloaded it and someday plan to play around with it, though with
the SDK already...
3 replies - 3630 views - 06/19/08 by Aaron Lerch in News
Consider a
simple web application that requires user input in some fields, lets
say some search box. Suppose a user types the following string in...
0 replies - 14153 views - 06/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in News
If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using
directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files
informing the compiler what...
0 replies - 5726 views - 06/16/08 by Schalk Neethling in News
When you think of the keyword this you probably
assume it refers to the current instance of the class. This is true for
most object oriented languages like C#...
1 replies - 2813 views - 06/11/08 by Justin Bezanson in News
Implementing a WCF forwarding router
consists of providing an endpoint with a generic contract which accepts
untyped messages. These messages can then be...
1 replies - 2809 views - 06/11/08 by sashag in News
In many places, forums, blogs,
or techy talks with some colleagues I hear some ongoing urban legends
about Linq to SQL I came across:
You can not implement...
4 replies - 2305 views - 06/10/08 by sidarok in News
In the .NET framework memory control is mostly
autonomous and is controlled by the CLR. Although in managed languages
we do not care much about controlling...
0 replies - 4320 views - 06/10/08 by raasiel in News
If you ever need to traverse each xml element in an xml document , you
may want to implement your own XmlEnumerable. I've had some issues with
the .NET XML API...
0 replies - 1438 views - 06/09/08 by Schalk Neethling in News
In case you don't already know, the ActivityId
is something we use to correlate trace events when logging so we know
which 'start' goes with which 'stop'...
0 replies - 798 views - 06/07/08 by Josh Twist in News
I’ve wanted to move towards programming in C# for a while, and it seems
like Silverlight 2 is giving me a great reason to make the time to
learn it. In the...
0 replies - 2242 views - 06/07/08 by Schalk Neethling in News
