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Business is good and we need YOU! Wintellect is currently seeking senior level technical development resources for both contract and permanent employment for our current client projects. If you want the challenge of keeping up with co-workers like Jeffrey Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:59 AM by JeffreyR | 0 Comments

My .NET Nuggets Keynote Talk From Houston Tech Fest October 15th, 2011

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Posted Sunday, December 04, 2011 9:41 PM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

Core .NET Types Usable from a Metro Style Application

When you create a new .NET Metro style application in Visual Studio, it spits out a project template that doesn't reference any .NET assemblies. Well, this isn't completely true, because when you run the C# compiler it references MSCorLib.dll by default. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:52 PM by JeffreyR | 3 Comments

Using the Windows Runtime from a Non-Metro Application

I know a lot of people believe that the new Windows Runtime APIs included in Windows 8 can only be accessed from Metro style applications. A big part of the reason why people believe this is because the version of Visual Studio that ships with the Windows Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:23 PM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

Links to resources involving Jeffrey Richter

Recently, I have been involved with some videos related to threading and Windows Azure which I’d like to share with you: I was the guest on an episode of AppFabric.TV released today! In this episode, I explain how asynchronous programming allows you to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 08, 2011 8:34 PM by JeffreyR | 0 Comments

My CLR via C#, 3rd Edition book is E-Book deal of the day on May 26, 2011

Just $23.99. Save 50% w/code DDCV3 http://oreil.ly/musvJw Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:25 AM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

Wintellect Azure Contest for XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle

Wintellect is conducting a contest where you could win an XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle. THis contest requires minimal effort from you. To register, all you have to do is signup up for a free Windows Azure pass and deploy a service that is provided for you. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:39 PM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

Microsoft and Wintellect Present - Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter

I am doing a FREE full-day seminar on programming for Windows Azure in 4 cities in mid-May 2011. The New York event will be broadcast live over the internet. To register for an in-person event, please see https://www.wintellect.com/Training/Webinar/Registration Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:41 AM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

Windows Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter: Explore the Benefits of Windows Azure Data Storage and Compute Services

Wintellect is working with Microsoft to offer a free 1-day Windows Azure event hosted by me. You can find more information at https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032484438&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=U Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2011 2:09 AM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

Jeffrey Richter speaks about Windows Azure and Asynchronous Programming

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devpara/archive/2011/04/01/jeffrey-richter-speaks-about-windows-azure-and-asynchronous-programming.aspx Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 02, 2011 12:42 AM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

Weak Event Handlers

In a few editions of my book, I showed how to implement weak event handlers which allow an object to be GCd if no other reference is keeping the object alive. If the object is alive, it recieves the event notification and if it isn’t alive, it doesn’t Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:21 AM by JeffreyR | 3 Comments

Jeffrey Richter, Wintellect, and Windows Azure

I love computing technologies. I've been programming since 1975 and experimenting with various languages (Basic, Pascal, COBOL, FORTRAN, RPG, APL, C, C++, C#, a little Python) and platforms (mostly DOS, Windows, .NET Framework and Android). During these Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:17 PM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

Logical Call Context: Flowing Data across Threads, AppDomains, and Processes

Many developers are familiar with Thread Local Storage (TLS) as a mechanism allowing you to associate a piece of data with a thread. I usually discourage people from using TLS because I recommend architecting applications to perform their operations using Read More...
Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 8:52 PM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

Integrating your Application’s Threading Model with the Asynchronous Programming Model

In version 2.0 of the .NET Framework, Microsoft introduced the System.Threading. SynchronizationContext class. Simply stated, a SynchronizationContext-derived object connects an application model to its threading model. The FCL defines several classes Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:44 PM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

Using AppDomains to make Non-Threadsafe code Threadsafe

Recently, I was involved in a Wintellect consulting engagement where a customer had some class library code that was created years ago. The code in this class library was not designed to work well in a multithreaded environment. Specifically, this means Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2010 7:39 PM by JeffreyR | 5 Comments
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