Cilk Wins Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation Award
The PLDI paper "Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language" introduced an efficient form of thread-local deques to control scheduling of... more »
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30 Common String Operations in C# and VB.NET – Part I
This article compiles some common String operations that we encounter while working with the String class. In Part I, 15 common string operations have... more »
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Windows based programmers... Stop hating CLIs (Command Line Interfaces)
If you are a unix/linux lover, this article may not be of interest to you, because you should be knowing the power of CLIs in *nix operating systems.... more »
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Silverlight/.NET vs Flash/Flex (or not) and My Silverlight Wishlist
I was going to present an analogy using different types of cars, but more often than not, the analogy breaks down on some key point or carries some... more »
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Welcome to Engineering Windows 7
Welcome to our first post on a new blog from Microsoft—the Engineering Windows 7 blog, or E7 for short. E7 is hosted by the two senior engineering... more »
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.aspx extension instead of .php? WHY???
For some reason, there are some people who write web sites with PHP, but put the ".aspx" extension at the end of their files. WHY???
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Microsoft’s Biggest Mistake with ASP.NET
I read this article from Rick Strahl, ASP.NET gets no Respect - Rick Strahl’s Web Log, and the comments that follow with great interest because just... more »
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ASP.NET gets no Respect
Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!
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XML Data Manipulation with XLinq
A short screencasts on how to do XML Data Manipulation with XLinq
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VB.Net: Single Instance application the better way
A better way to create a single instance application
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Low-Latency GC in .NET 3.5
GC flavors are a static performance optimization for the .NET garbage collector. Under various circumstances, applications can opt-in (before... more »
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What's new in the VS 2008 SP1?
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 introduces significant new functionality as ADO.NET expands and evolves to change the way that we program against data. Between... more »
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“if Microsoft is so good at testing, why does your software suck?”
What a question! I only wish I could convey the way that question is normally asked. The tone of voice is either partially apologetic (because many... more »
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 has just released!
Great news folks, it looks like the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 has finally released, although IMHO it's more of a Feature Pack (since new... more »
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The Fall of Rome: The Microsoft Way
I’ve always been a fan of smart phones, and for the most part I’ve been a Microsoft faithful (there was that brief moment back around 2000 though when... more »
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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
In this writing, I have tried to sum up some important links and points related to the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) release.
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Microsoft worried over .NET fragmentation
An internal Microsoft document viewed by SD Times cautions that "revamp growth" of .NET's libraries and a lack of coordination among concepts threaten... more »
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The best feature in SQL Server 2008 – sqlps.exe?
I am beginning to think it could be humble sqlps.exe. SQL Server 2008 includes powershell support – it is very, very nice. I have barely scraped the... more »
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Introducing Alfresco Labs 3
John Newton, Alfresco's co-founder and CTO, talks about Alfresco Labs 3. Alfresco is the open source alternative for Enterprise Content Management and... more »
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Girl Developer wants to know why we all just can't get along....
There are wars fought world wide over arbitrary ideals, developers will be the first people to tell you that. Why can't we apply the same unbiased... more »
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Visual Studio Theme Generator
A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every... more »
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On Documentation for (and by) Developers
This has become a personal pet - peeve of mine, having been in various developer groups using the .NET platform since 2001 (ancient history, to be... more »
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Entity Framework - POCO
The Entity Framework team is having an open design discussion regarding the best way to implement state management with POCO. A lot of community... more »
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Introduction to IoC/DI - The art of Decoupling.
Introduction to IoC/DI - The art of Decoupling. This episode we will review what Inversion of Control (IoC)/Dependancy Injection (DI) is and why they... more »
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IronNails = Silverlight + IronRuby + Patterns
If you already pay attention to the IronRuby dev group and are on the distribution list, apologies for the dupe. I’ve just got back from a camping... more »
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