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22 March 2009
How to: Add CData or Text in a ConfigurationElement
I was working on a MsScriptControl based ETL project. One of its requirements is to be able to use vbscript functions in the transformations it performs. It is fairly easy to hard-code functions then register them during start-up all at the expense of maintainability. I guess the better side of me prevailed... Read More...
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17 February 2009
MethodInfo.Invoke vs MethodCall Performance on DynamicMethods
I posted a question on cvega ’s article on using CIL getters and setters to speed up the execution of heavily reflection-based code asking which one will perform better using DynamicMethod.Invoke or using DynamicMethod.CreateDelegate then calling that delegate. On which he promptly replied. But... Read More...
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03 February 2009
Threading Patterns: Producer-Consumer Pattern Examples
This is the third installment to my series of posts about threading patterns. Today we will look into familiar scenarios where we can apply the producer-consumer pattern particularly applications of the ThreadedQueueBase<T> class. Usage Pattern Note that the threaded queue classes that I provided... Read More...
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12 January 2009
Threading Patterns: The Producer-Consumer Pattern
This is the second installment to my series of posts about threading patterns . In the previous article , we looked into the worker thread pattern . It models the concept of thread-per-message by creating one thread per instruction/message pair. This approach is effective in achieving some level of parallelism... Read More...
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10 January 2009
IConfigurationSectionHandler Is Dead! Long Live IConfigurationSectionHandler!
I was tasked to create the configuration functionality of the architectural components for an SOA project that I previously worked on. I took as much time as I can in designing the XML thinking that it will be very easy to process it and churn it into a Configuration class by implementing the IConfigurationSectionHandler... Read More...
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20 December 2008
Threading Patterns: The Worker Thread Pattern
As promised, I am beginning this series of posts about threading patterns that I find useful in everyday coding. To start off, I will introduce you guys to the concept of the worker thread pattern. This article assumes that you know a thing or two about the concept of threading in general. .Net Threading... Read More...
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17 December 2007
Closures and Linq in C# 3.0
Keith posted a great article demonstrating Linqs capabilities. There he was asked if his examples where " closures ". Let me take this opportunity to explain how closures are used in Linq by clarifying what a closure is and showing how the Linq queries are translated at compile time(from linq... Read More...
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26 July 2007
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 Released
So for those of you aching to try the new partial methods feature this is your chance. You can access it here . Scott Guthrie has a post about the features and an installation note to prevent your older asp.net ajax applications from having a dependency on the asp.net ajax binaries that come with beta... Read More...
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01 May 2007
A Conceptual Concurrent Testing Framework for .Net Applications
Technological advancements in micro-processors suggest an imminent paradigm shift in software development. The sudden shift from old architecture to a new breed of multi–core processors dictates the use of concurrency concepts to optimize performance and to get around synchronization abstractions like... Read More...
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29 March 2007
A Tribute to the Unsung Heroes of C#’s Functional Revolution
Many of us may not have noticed it but C# 2.0 gave us several really cool delegates and methods aimed at providing a gentle transition to the functional programming concepts introduced in C# 3.0 and Linq. This post aims to take a look at these useful yet under appreciated delegates and functions instrumental... Read More...
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23 March 2007
Lambda Expressions in C#
C# 3.0 introduces a new feature called lambda expressions. While this is not a revolutionary thing, it opens up a plethora of new possibilities for .Net programming. This post aims to introduce lambda expressions by providing a backgrounder, looking into its syntax and providing examples along the way... Read More...
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