The Programmer Responsible for the World’s Financial Collapse(lovethedot.net)

submitted by Ragoczy(655) 3 years, 1 month ago

I knew it. You knew it. We just didn’t want to admit it. There had to be software at the heart of world’s financial woes and some way to blame a programmer. read more...

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A Bit About the Performance of Concurrent Collections in .Net 4.0(lovethedot.net)

submitted by Ragoczy(655) 3 years, 1 month ago

In a previous post I mentioned the curious side-effect of the .Net 4.0 concurrent collections' thread-safety, that it will be possible to modify these collections (add/remove) while enumerating them. In this post, I examine the possible performance consequences of doing just that. read more...

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Changing a Collection While Enumerating in .Net 4.0(lovethedot.net)

submitted by Ragoczy(655) 3 years, 1 month ago

We've probably all done it at one point, tried to remove an item from a collection in the middle of a ForEach enumeration and gotten an exception for our trouble -- you can't change a collection in the middle of enumerating it. The Coordinated Data Structures coming in .Net 4.0 change that, giving us threadsafe collections for parallel programming that allow changes while enumerating. read more...

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Content Stealing Jerks(kevinwilliampang.com)

submitted by kpanghmc(2055) 3 years, 1 month ago

I've grown somewhat accustomed to seeing my articles regurgitated on some random blogger's site and passed off as their own. Usually I just send content stealing jerk (CSJ for future reference) an e-mail asking that they provide some sort of link back to my original article and leave it at that. Sometimes they comply, oftentimes they don't. In the end, life goes on. After all, it's not like I'm going to press charges over it. read more...

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spicIE How To: Writing Internet Explorer Plugins in Managed Code(lovethedot.net)

submitted by Ragoczy(655) 3 years, 2 months ago

An introduction to spicIE, a Code Gallery offering that wraps the COMplexities of writing Internet Explorer plugins and allows you to write a plugin in managed code (C#, VB.Net, etc.). read more...

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It's Not a "Bug", It's a Defect(lovethedot.net)

submitted by Ragoczy(655) 3 years, 2 months ago

The days of problems being caused by insects getting crushed in mechanical switches are far behind us – these days, if there’s a problem with software, it was put there by a programmer. It didn’t crawl in and it didn’t “develop” – it’s a result of someone’s screw-up. read more...

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Cast<> to the rescue.(nizarnoorani.com)

submitted by noorani786(342) 3 years, 2 months ago

How to convert an collection of classes to a collection of interfaces. read more...

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Observations of a Developer - What's In a Title?(patrickdewane.com)

submitted by patrickdewane(205) 3 years, 2 months ago

Normally a blog with a technical bent, this opinion piece observes the phenomenon of title abuse in the tech industry and its reprocussions. read more...

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TaskManager -- The Range Rover of the .Net 4 Parallel Extensions(lovethedot.net)

submitted by Ragoczy(655) 3 years, 2 months ago

A discussion of the TaskManager and TaskProfile classes available in .Net 4 and how they can be misused to negatively impact parallel and system performance. read more...

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A Post About Nothing, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Null(dylanbeattie.blogspot.com)

submitted by joejoejoejoe(1140) 3 years, 3 months ago

What does null mean? It's got to mean something. You're either pregnant or you're not. You can't have a third state. A light switch is either on or off. If a light switch doesn't exist then it's potentially very dangerous. Almost as dangerous as having a nullable bool. read more...

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Using Windows Live Writer with BlogEngine.net(chadgreen.com)

submitted by chadwickgreen(405) 3 years, 3 months ago

Using the built-in blog entry tools in BlogEngine.net works just fine, but I have come to like Windows Live Writer better. It just seems to make things just a little bit easier. Here are some very simple instructions on how to get Windows Live Writer working for BlogEngine.net read more...

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Parallel.For(…): A Deeper Dive – Parallel Programming in .Net 4.0(lovethedot.net)

submitted by Ragoczy(655) 3 years, 3 months ago

An in-depth look at the Parallel.For() method from the Parallel Extensions coming in .Net 4.0. This article examines the return value and optional parameters of Parallel.For, including local thread initialization, finalization and the ParallelState object. Most of the information also applies to Parallel.ForEach, as well. read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 376

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Future<T> -- Parallel Programming in .Net 4.0(lovethedot.net)

submitted by Ragoczy(655) 3 years, 3 months ago

This article examines Future<T> and it's use to start a parallel task that returns a value, enabling you to block when retrieving that value if it hasn't completed proessing yet. read more...

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Parallel Programming in .Net 4.0: BlockingCollection<T>(lovethedot.net)

submitted by Ragoczy(655) 3 years, 3 months ago

This article takes a look at BlockingCollection<T>, one of the new, threadsafe collections coming in .Net 4.0. BlockingCollection<T> allows different threads to add-to/iterate-over the collection simultaneously while giving subscribers the option of blocking until more items are available and publishers to block if too many items are already in the collection. read more...

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Why the ItemsControl ScrollViewer Attached Property Does Not Work (dev102.com)

submitted by shaharyr(4325) 3 years, 3 months ago

In my latest article I discussed Scrolling and Binding to large collections in WPF. We saw some disturbing behavior when binding a large collection to an ItemsControl. After Further Examination I found out very interesting things regarding that matter. read more...

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Infinite Lists With C# Yield(codethinked.com)

submitted by justin_etheredge(8539) 3 years, 3 months ago

What we are about to talk about here may seem like a purely academic exercise, but hopefully I will convince you that this isn’t exactly the case. There are several situations in real-world applications where infinite lists can appears if only we were to think about them in the right way. read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 451

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