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 This is the managed API that I personally implemented ...

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 class and my new Building Responsive, Reliable, and Scalable Applications and Components class ...

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.  

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 within a week or so. I just got 2 advanced copies of it earlier this week. I think this is my ...

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 of the machine into account when producing the executable code.  Define ...

Today, I discovered that Microsoft was filing a patent for “an operator that returns true when two memory addresses are not equal”!   See ...

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 managed code is JIT compiled, the code is very similar to that of unmanaged code. The code was ...

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 name: “Barracuda”). Today, my friend works in the SPOT tema at MS. SPOT stands for ...

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 a whiteboard session where I was with 4 attendees architecting their client/server/web service ...

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, someone at Microsoft informed me that I was incorrect. In Whidbey, Click Once does ...