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Windows SideShow .NET Framework Components 1.0 (Beta)

Well, I'm very pleased to announce that the "Windows SideShow .NET Framework Components 1.0 (Beta)" is avialable as of today (January 18, 2007). You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=06FA2ACE-A42D-4117-821C-BCE80786F1C4&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:03 PM by JeffreyR | 5 Comments
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Jeffrey Richter Update

Hi all, I have been silent on the blog as usual but thought I'd add an entry today bring you up-to-date on my activities. I have been extremely busy. Wintellect has gotten some big deals lately which has had me travelling and teaching my .NET Framework Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 12:40 AM by JeffreyR | 5 Comments
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Accessing Power Collections

The Power Collections Library on http://Wintellect.com no longer requires that you register with Wintellect. As of yesterday, you can simply download the file and start using the Power Collections immediately. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 12:31 AM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments
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New book, new course, new magazine column, new consulting gig, new technologies, and a new vacation

Well, it has been a long since I last blogged and I've been incredibly busy the past year. I thought I'd share with you some of the things I've done and some of the things I'll be doing. First, my new book is finished and should be shipping to customers Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 7:20 AM by JeffreyR | 10 Comments
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.NET Questions regarding JIT compiler/strong-naming security

A reader of my books asked me some .NET Questions regarding JIT compiler/strong-naming security. I thought I'd share his questions and my answers with you: 1. According to Microsoft documentation the Just In-Time Compiler takes the following attributes Read More...
Posted Monday, July 25, 2005 1:57 PM by JeffreyR | 0 Comments
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I wish I had patented the idea of Zero, it was my idea first, really!

Today, I discovered that Microsoft was filing a patent for “an operator that returns true when two memory addresses are not equal”! See http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959 Read More...
Posted Monday, November 22, 2004 9:11 PM by JeffreyR | 2 Comments
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Field access versus local variable access performance

Recently, I was at a customer site and they were comparing the performance of a function that was written in unmanaged C with its C# equivalent. As they expected, the C code was performing much faster than the C# code. However, I didn't expect this. Once Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 13, 2004 11:09 PM by JeffreyR | 6 Comments
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TinyCLR and a Stamp

Last Thursday, a friend of mine from days gone by contacted me and invited me to a meeting. I met my friend when I started consulting for Microsoft about 12 yerars ago when he and I were both working on the first 32-bit version of Visual Studio (code Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 19, 2004 2:13 AM by JeffreyR | 5 Comments
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Devscovery Ponderrings

Last week was very hectic with Devscovery Redmond in full swing. It was a great event and I really think I connected with the audience. I had a lot of conversations between sessions and at the end of each day. In particular, during the reception, I had Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:48 PM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments
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Jeffrey Richter on .NET Rocks!

Oh, I forget to tell everyone that I was on episode #73 of .NET Rocks! Check it out here . By the way, I said in the show that Whidbey Click Once uses the BITS (code name “drizzle”) technology that has been in Windows for many years now. However, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:06 AM by JeffreyR | 2 Comments
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My Birthday, A Tablet PC Project, and Vacation

July 27th was my 40th birthday and Kristin, my wife, surprised me with an awesome present. First, she got her mother to babysit our son. Then, she contacted 6 of our friends and invited them to join us as we flew from Seattle to Coeur d'Alene Idaho. There Read More...
Posted Monday, August 09, 2004 4:31 PM by JeffreyR | 8 Comments
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Wedding Anniversary, Versioning, Dinner w/Friends, WSE, Tablet PCs, Virtual PCs, and more

A lot has been going on for me the past week. July 12 th was my wedding anniversary; Kristin & I have been married 3 years! But, we were dating for 3 years before we got married so we’ve really been together for 6 years now. This week I spent Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 17, 2004 3:28 PM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments
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Amazing Race

I enjoy the Amazing Race too. If I get picked for Survivor, I don't know what I'd do. I don't think I'd last the plane ride to wherever. I'm a 100% city boy. Sometimes, living in Seattle is pushing it for me. I'd love living in New York or London. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:42 PM by JeffreyR | 0 Comments
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Jeff Richter's First Blog Entry Ever

Well, I've had several people ask me to start blogging and I'm finally breaking down and doing it. Recently, I started getting into RSS and I am much more of a believer in blogs now since new entries are pushed down to people who care about my comings Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 04, 2004 5:21 AM by JeffreyR | 8 Comments
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