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Mon, Jan 21 2013 11:11

IDisposable and Class Hierarchies

In my previous post , I showed how the Dispose Pattern is effectively obsolete. But, there’s one area that I didn’t really cover. What do you do when you want to create a class that implements IDisposable , doesn’t implement the Dispose...
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Sun, Jan 20 2013 16:16

The Dispose Pattern as an anti-pattern

When .NET first came out, the framework only had abstractions for what seemed like a handful of Windows features. Developers were required to write their own abstractions around the Windows features that did not have abstractions. Working with these features...
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Tue, Sep 11 2012 14:04

Thread synchronization of non-atomic invariants in .NET 4.5

Now that we’ve seen how a singular x86-x64 focus might affect how we can synchronize atomic invariants , let’s look at non-atomic invariants. While an atomic invariant really doesn’t need much in the way of guarding , non-atomic invariants often do. ...
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Sun, Sep 9 2012 11:52

Thread synchronization of atomic invariants in .NET 4.5

I've written before about multi-threaded programming in .NET (C#). Spinning up threads and executing code on another thread isn't really the hard part. The hard part is synchronization of data between threads. Most of what I've written about...
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Sat, Aug 25 2012 17:12

Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices published

Most of my spare time in the last few months has been taken up by writing Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices . This has now been published and is available through publisher (no longer pre-order) at http://bit.ly/Px43Pw . The pre-order price is still available...
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Fri, May 25 2012 12:51

Automated Testing Isn’t Just for Business Logic

I had a conversation with Kelly Sommers the other day that was partially a short support group session on the annoying tendencies of development teams to completely lose focus on the architecture and design principles of a system and let the code base...
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Thu, Nov 24 2011 8:50

If You’re Using “#if DEBUG”, You’re Doing it Wrong

I was going through some legacy code the other day, refactoring it all over the place and I ran into many blocks of code wrapped in “#if DEBUG”.  Of course, after a bit of refactoring in a RELEASE configuration these blocks of code were quickly out...
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Wed, Feb 9 2011 18:20

Developing Windows Services in Visual Studio

Inevitably distributed systems often need a Windows service or two for certain tasks. The creation of a Windows service project and hooking up a project installer to the service is fairly straightforward; so, I’m not going to get into much detail...
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Wed, Nov 3 2010 8:23

Deep Dive on Closure Pitfalls

I've blogged about closures in C# and their pitfalls before. I keep seeing problems with closures--more now that lambdas expressions and statements ("lambdas") are becoming more widespread--even with experienced developers. So, I'd thought...
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