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Yahoo Group Set-up for Power Threading Library

I have set up a Yahoo group for people interested in using my Power Threading Library. Currently, the group is public so anyone can join. I am the moderator of the group and so I can answer questions, offer comments/suggestions on the library's use, and Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:21 AM by JeffreyR | 0 Comments

An interview with me about The Performance of Everyday Things

At the April 2008 Devscovery ( http://www.Devscovery.com ) event in New York, I recently did a new talk entitled "The Performance of Everyday Things". The talk is about the performance of using everyday constructs in .NET/C# such as method calls, arrays, Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:15 AM by JeffreyR | 1 Comments

More about Windows SideShow

In addition to releasing the .NET Windows SideShow API that I created, the Windows SideShow team has also just released the Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=79f19684-f862-4e02-a2b0-0003b4565f34&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:13 AM by JeffreyR | 0 Comments

Power Threading Library (AsyncEnumerator & SyncGate), .NET Rocks! and SideShow

Recently, I have been updating my Power Threading Library by adding some new features, fixing some minor bugs, and improving the documentation and sample apps to demonstrate its features. I am particulary proud of my AsyncEnumerator class which allows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:29 AM by JeffreyR | 2 Comments

eBooks

Many readers have asked me if an electronic version of my book is available. Unfortunately, the answer is no and there are no plans to make one available. Some older versions of my book were available in electronic form but Microsoft Press and I discovered Read More...
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 3:35 PM by JeffreyR | 6 Comments

Windows via C/C++ Table of Contents

Some (potential) readers have asked me to post the complete table of contents for my new Windows via C/C++ book. Here it is: Part I Required Reading 1 Error Handling 2 Working with Characters and Strings 3 Kernel Objects Part II Getting Work Done 4 Processes Read More...
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 3:27 PM by JeffreyR | 5 Comments

CLR via C# will NOT be updated for .NET 3.5

I get a lot of e-mails asking me if I will be updating my CLR via C# book for .NET 3.5. This blog entry will asnwer this question. Here is the short answer: NO, I am not updating the book. Here is the long answer: My CLR via C# book was last updated for Read More...
Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 9:08 AM by JeffreyR | 10 Comments
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Book Update

First, the bad news: A while ago, Microsoft Press and I bantered around the idea of producing a version of my "CLR via C#" book targeted towards C++/CLI users. The book was going to be titled "CLR via C++/CLI" (catchy title, eh?). As I am not a C++/CLI Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 16, 2007 1:28 AM by JeffreyR | 15 Comments

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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