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Monday, July 28, 2008 2:00 PM

ITSWITCH #1: Answer

Last post I detailed some code that may or may not have something wrong in it.  If you thought InitializeOne and IntializeTwo are semantically identical (e.g. they differ only by performance), you'd be wrong. If you simply ran the code, you'd...
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Friday, July 25, 2008 1:58 PM

ITSWITCH: #1

A short pop quiz on design/coding in C#...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:35 PM

Formatting/parsing for a specific culture redux

In recent blog post I detailed how creating a culture via the CultureInfo constructor could actually create a user-overridden culture--which could be completely different than the culture that you've requested by name. Fortunately there's a way...
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Friday, October 12, 2007 12:13 PM

Using Exceptions For Normal Logic Flow

The generally accepted wisdom is that you shouldn't use Exceptions for normal logic flow. Normal logic flow is a bit subjective; but anything that must happen at least once in all known scenarios is normal logic flow. Enter XML Serialization in the...
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Friday, October 12, 2007 10:15 AM

Who's Referencing Whom?

When developing any sort of application, debugging in inevitable. Sometimes, part of that debugging means trying to figure out why objects haven't been collected and therefore figuring out what object is referencing the object that has yet to be collected...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:13 PM

Thread.Abort is a Sign of a Poorly Designed Program

Continuing the theme of Thead.Sleep is a sign of a poorly designed program , I've been meaning to provide similar detail on Thread.Abort and not just allude to it in other posts like 'System.Threading.Thread.Suspend() is obsolete: 'Thread...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:30 PM

Performance Implications of try/catch/finally, Part Two

In a previous blog entry Performance Implications of try/catch/finally I outlined that the conventional wisdom that there are no performance implications to try blocks unless an exception is thrown is false. I have some clarifications and details to add...
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Friday, June 22, 2007 12:38 PM

Performance Implications of try/catch/finally

The accepted wisdom regarding performance of try / catch | finally in C# has normally been: try has no performance side-effects unless an exception is thrown. A discussion I was involved in recently caused me to discover some performance implications...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:45 PM

.NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1

I noticed mention of .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 on a Microsoft site today. The BCL Team's latest blog entry http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2007/05/21/the-regexoptions-compiled-flag-and-slow-performance-on-64-bit-net-framework-2-0-josh...
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Sunday, September 10, 2006 8:23 PM

Changing TextBox Text as an Undo-able Action

The TextBox class supports undoing the last action--inherited from TextBoxBase . Normally the user does this by pressing the undo key (Ctrl-Z if your keyboard doesn't have a specific Undo key) or by selecting "Undo" from the context menu. The last action...
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Saturday, September 09, 2006 11:17 AM

Protecting intellectual properties in .NET, Part 1.

One thing that bothers many people and organizations about .NET is the ease of which IL code can be re-hydrated into source code (C#/VB/etc.). While this has always been a problem with binaries, IL code is a much smaller set of instructions compared to...
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