http://dotnet.dzone.com/interviews/current en http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/managed-synchronization-primit The managed synchronization mechanisms, including Monitor, WaitHandle.WaitAny, ManualResetEvent, ReaderWriterLock, Thread.Join, GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers and the rest of the family are not just a thin platform adaptation layer on top of the Win32 API. The CLR needs to know exactly which threads are currently waiting for a synchronization mechanisms for a variety of reasons.  To mention two... http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/managed-synchronization-primit#comments .NET & Windows Server-side synchronization Thread Apartment States Win32 & COM http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4753 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:20:43 -0400 53 0 sashag http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-295327.jpg Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:20:43 -0400 sashag 4753 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/agile-development-why-it-rocks The Agile method was the best thing that happened to me in my career as a developer. Before I came across Agile, one of my biggest frustrations was the difficulty I had with getting large assignments and breaking them down in little pieces. Usually, in the beginning, I'd be at full steam, really motivated, really excited, and rearing to go. This would last for a little while then the... http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/agile-development-why-it-rocks#comments .NET & Windows agile development process project success Agile http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4749 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:34:58 -0400 514 1 sarajo http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-287218.jpg Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:34:58 -0400 sarajo 4749 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/lean-software-development While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver software.Stories http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/lean-software-development#comments agile development lean development process Project Mgmt. Agile http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4715 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:25:11 -0400 1741 0 jaycfields http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-246163.jpg Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:25:11 -0400 jaycfields 4715 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/a-theory-everything-software-d If there's one thing that all software development experts agree on, it's that the other experts are not always right. There are so many points of view in our industry, it makes the Rocky Mountains look like a tennis court. http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/a-theory-everything-software-d#comments agile development holistic overview lean development Trends Opinions http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4586 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:53:15 -0400 201 0 jurgenappelo http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-284687.jpg Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:53:15 -0400 jurgenappelo 4586 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/why-data-as-a-service-isnt-a-b Early this week I encountered the post "Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea" written by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz in DZone. The title caught my eye and I read the post. http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/why-data-as-a-service-isnt-a-b#comments .NET & Windows Server-side ADO.NET LINQ SOA Data Access http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4645 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:53:41 -0400 356 0 gilf http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-301040.jpg Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:53:41 -0400 gilf 4645 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/selectmany-probably-the-most-p Hi there back again. Hope everyone is already exploiting the power of LINQ on a fairly regular basis. Okay, everyone knows by now how simple LINQ queries with a where and select (and orderby, and Take and Skip and Sum, etc) are translated from a query comprehension into an equivalent expression for further translation:from p in products where p.Price > 100 select p.Namebecomes http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/selectmany-probably-the-most-p#comments .NET & Windows C# Client-side LINQ Data Access http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4626 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:14:15 -0400 183 0 bdesmet http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-301284.jpg Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:14:15 -0400 bdesmet 4626 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/im-thinking-using-agile-softwa This question is one I've run into a few times recently. It's not a question I can answer quickly as the question is based on a false premise about the relationship between lean and agile. So first I need to go into some history to help explain that relationship. http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/im-thinking-using-agile-softwa#comments agile development choice of approach lean development Industry Opinions http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4585 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:13:53 -0400 440 0 martinfowler http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-323432.jpg Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:13:53 -0400 martinfowler 4585 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/practical-concurrency-patterns Another very simple pattern builds on the foundation of the Safe-Unsafe Cache pattern.  What is the easiest way to protect data from multi-threaded access and to incur the minimal performance cost while doing so?  Making it read-only! http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/practical-concurrency-patterns#comments .NET & Windows Architecture C-Sharp Patterns http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4583 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:28:09 -0400 450 0 sashag http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-295327.jpg Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:28:09 -0400 sashag 4583 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/curry-dummies Introduction Functional programming concepts aren’t that hard but sometimes a little abstract. In this post I’ll try to demystify the concept of currying, or - in simple words – partial function application. If you wonder where the name “curry” comes from, it’s named after Haskell Curry, one of the creative minds behind functional programming, and indeed as the name implies it adds... http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/curry-dummies#comments Architecture Blueprints C-Sharp Languages http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4582 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:08:33 -0400 175 0 bdesmet http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-301284.jpg Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:08:33 -0400 bdesmet 4582 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/linq-folding-left-right-and-th A few days ago I blogged about Curry for Dummies, outlining one of the typical techniques employed in functional programming. What I didn't say back then is I'm about to reuse the "Curry" function with formal substitution mechanism for this subsequent blog post. Just as a quick refresher:LambdaExpression Curry(LambdaExpression func, params Expression[] parameters);used like this: http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/linq-folding-left-right-and-th#comments .NET & Windows Server-side Functional Programming LINQ Data Access http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4571 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:12:48 -0400 134 0 bdesmet http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-301284.jpg Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:12:48 -0400 bdesmet 4571 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/why-database-a-service-a-bad-i Microsoft recently released SP1 for .NET. Database service SOA Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:04:25 -0400 3792 0 arnonrgo http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-290666.jpg Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:04:25 -0400 arnonrgo 4556 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/low-latency-gc-net-35 GC flavors are a static performance optimization for the .NET garbage collector.  Under various circumstances, applications can opt-in (before runtime) to a runtime mode that affects the GC’s behavior to better suit the specific application in question.  For a succinct yet complete description of GC flavors, Maoni’s blog is a great source of information. http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/low-latency-gc-net-35#comments .NET & Windows Server-side .NET Internals Low Latency Performance http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4524 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:27:18 -0400 719 0 sashag http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-295327.jpg Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:27:18 -0400 sashag 4524 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/how-ie8-enables-silverlight-de One of new features in the next version of Internet Explorer (IE8) was created specifically for AJAX applications and can add significant functionality to Silverlight applications as well.  Here is the description of the feature (from Better AJAX Development): http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/how-ie8-enables-silverlight-de#comments .NET & Windows Client-side IE8 Silverlight HTML & XHTML Ajax & Scripting http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4462 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:39:12 -0400 645 0 synergist http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-324567.jpg Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:39:12 -0400 synergist 4462 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/build-your-subsonic-dal-with-n SubSonic is a .NET ORM (object relational mapping) tool with plenty of extras. In the ORM market, it can be compared to other tool such as Linq and NHibernate. I chose SubSonic over NHibernate, because of the ease of configuration or Linq, because I am still programming for .NET 2.0. That being said, there are three different ways to generate your data access layer using SubSonic: http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/build-your-subsonic-dal-with-n#comments Server-side NAnt subsonic Frameworks Data Access ASP.NET http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4434 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:58:16 -0400 322 0 boyan http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-246156.jpg Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:58:16 -0400 boyan 4434 at http://dotnet.dzone.com http://dotnet.dzone.com/announcements/csharp A C# MVP since 2003, Jon Skeet wrote this reference card for use in whatever type of C# project you're working on, and whichever version of C# you're using. It covers many topics, from the basics of string escape sequences to the brave new world of query expressions and LINQ in C# 3. Features include String Literals, Delegates, Declaring Events, Generics, Extension Methods, Query Expressions (C#... http://dotnet.dzone.com/announcements/csharp#comments http://dotnet.dzone.com/crss/node/4378 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:00:00 -0400 996 0 jill http://dotnet.dzone.com/sites/all/files/avatars/picture-11.jpg Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:00:00 -0400 jill 4378 at http://dotnet.dzone.com