Assault by GC(marcgravell.blogspot.com)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 28 days ago

Well-known .NET developer Marc Gravell details how he eliminated some performance problems through clever use of structures, and explains how the CLR garbage collector behaves. read more...

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Memory Allocation Improvements in .Net 4.5(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 7 months, 21 days ago

Surupa Biswas and Maoni Stephens from the Garbage Collection Feature Team at Microsoft share with us some improvements to memory allocation in .Net 4.5, specifically relating to large object allocation. Improvements have been made to how fragmented memory is allocated and used on the heap, as well as balancing large object allocation between heaps when in server GC mode. The latter improvement has seen significant performance gains. read more...

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.NET 4.5 Framework: Backwards compatibility and you(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 7 months, 28 days ago

Brandon Bray gives us some information on backwards compatibility with the upcoming .NET Framework 4.5. This next version of the framework will not be a side-by-side installation like previous releases, but will instead replace version 4 when installed on a users machine. The goal is to be fully backwards compatible with version 4, but the possibility for breakage exists. read more...

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WinRT Demystified(tirania.org)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 8 months, 9 days ago

Miguel de Icaza, of Mono fame, walks us through WinRT and what it means for .Net programmers. read more...

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What's new in .Net Framework 4.5(msdn.microsoft.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 8 months, 10 days ago

MSDN article on what's new in .Net 4.5 read more...

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What is this thing you call a Type?(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 8 months, 13 days ago

Eric Lippert talks about what a Type in .Net really is. read more...

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What is this thing you call a Type? Part Two(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 8 months, 13 days ago

Eric Lippert brings us part two of his series on what is is to be a Type in .Net. read more...

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Clojure on the CLR(github.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 9 months, 4 days ago

First came IronPython, then IronRuby, and now Clojure has been ported to run on the CLR. A short intro/comparison to C# is available here: http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2011/08/15/clojure-and-the-clr.aspx read more...

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Get-notified-when-garbage-collections-happens(www.codemine.net)

submitted by skpananghat(184) 9 months, 21 days ago

This is a code snippet which i got from Jeffrey Richters blog. This code offers a way to raise notification event when a garbage collection occurs on Generation 0 or Generation 2 object Here is the code for the class: read more...

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Top 5 Memory Management Misconceptions(www.simple-talk.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 9 months, 26 days ago

Fantastic article on memory management in .NET. This is a must read. Also includes a webinar and pdf on the subject, do yourself a favor and save a copy of this somewhere safe. read more...

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How To Use a .NET 4 Based DLL From .NET 2 Based Application?(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by arikp(1204) 11 months, 25 days ago

The official answer is you can’t. In this post I show how you can get it done. read more...

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We keep going until your brain throws OutofMemoryException(typedescriptor.net)

submitted by gmann(30) 1 year, 2 months ago

Reveal hidden treasures and useful information about the .NET Framework class libraries everyday with API of the Day. read more...

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Detecting UI Thread Misuse(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by bunglebooz(1132) 1 year, 4 months ago

One of the challenges in building a UI application is correctly using the UI thread. This is a shared resource, and so any misuse has the potential to have global application effect. read more...

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Interesting .NET Framework 4 Statistics(geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by sdorman(1415) 1 year, 8 months ago

Some interesting statistics for the .NET Framework 4.0. There were a total of 44,346 types (loaded from 130 assemblies), with 33,152 classes, 2,398 interfaces, 4,828 enums, and 8,796 value types. read more...

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.NET 4.0 has 2 Global Assembly Cache (GAC)(www.devcurry.com)

submitted by sahi(231) 1 year, 10 months ago

While reading an article on Understanding The CLR Binder, I found out that .NET 4.0 has 2 distinct GAC’s (Global Assembly Cache).In previous .NET versions, when I installed a .NET assembly into the GAC (using gacutil.exe), I could find it in the ‘C:\Windows\assembly’ path. With .NET 4.0, GAC is now .... read more...

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Exploring Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) within Task Parallel Library(bit.ly)

submitted by reshmin(383) 2 years, 1 month ago

How to use ETW to get information from Task Parallel Library read more...

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