I'm getting increasingly involved in the world of Asynchrony and have been doing a bit of digging about into some of the pitfalls of multi-threading. I came across an interesting one today involving the use of BeginInvoke without a corresponding EndInvoke when…
I posted a little while ago about an odd 'Memory Leak' I was having...well, after several days of trawling (and annoying Data Wantawho's excellent email component I was mistakenly blaming - sorry!), I finally found the answer! Turns out that the little…
OK, can anyone explain why I can't check explicitly if I can lock a file before reading from it (i.e., check that no-one else is locking the file before trying to read from it). I'm using the marvellous FileSystemWatcher to wait for files being created in a…
Just noticed this in my User Agents....NET CLR 2.0.31022 - now the version I have from the Alpha is .NET CLR 1.2.30703 - is this new string the PDC build?
With all the hype about the distribution of the Whidbey Alpha at the PDC, I can't help but worry that people will get their hopes up a bit much...just remember it's an Alpha, whilst phenomenally cool and displaying lots of the new .NET 1.2 (or 2.0, not sure…
Further to my earlier bit on Threading, this site has some brilliant (fairly advanced) examples on various things...including a custom Thread Pool
I'm late for work (this is not unusual, I work strange hours). Anyway, does anyone have any opinions of Flash MX as a front end for distributed .NET apps. I plan to spend some time looking at this, looks like you can do decent interactions with web services. I…
Noticed this over on Alex Lowes'blog, link to the building blocks page. Some very useful resources - I can see these being used more and more in the community. We already use the Exception Management and Data Access Blocks in our large Portal project, they…
I forget whos' blog I saw this on (post a comment and i'll link). This is essentially the documentation and bits which .NET Passport should have always come with. The passport toggler alone is totally indespensible for all developer using .NET passport. The…
On of the worst omissions from .NET 1.0 and 1.1 is compression...and no-one has ever really explained the reasons why we can't have it as part of the cor framework. Also, why doesn't WSE include anything on message compression? Anyway, there is one way to get…