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…
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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 have recently been having a look at threading in ASP.NET, found this excellent article from June 2003 which is a pretty good introduction to the whole thorny issue. Also found a useful example from the 'always worth a look' C# Corner...here
Have a read at this article on implementing the SIngleton pattern in C#. No idea what I'm on about? Well, the Singleton Pattern isn't a knitting method for the lonely, it's one of the most important techniques for ensuring that two people - on the web its'…
I wrote on Brian Desmond's blog about how good a C# (open source of course!) statistics system would be...this got me thinking - it wouldn't be that hard to write one based on an HttpHandler. I don't really want to log accesses to graphics etc...and if I did,…
Feeling a bit unmotivated. I spent the weekend finishing RC2 of this portal application we're working on (stay tuned, I'll be able to tell you more soon...including some code tips!). As a result I'm not really in a coding mood today - I'm very mood driven. So,…
I linked to the other two...might as well think to this one. It is another really interesting article and provides further insight into the reasons for some of the decisions taken in the design of C# by a guy who is probably the finest language designer on the…
I am in the middle of developing a couple of new controls to work with this site (first up is a booklist which works with the amazon.co.uk web service), as part of this I need to have data access. I was having a look at the current SQLHelper class in the…
Pretty clever little function...can't think of a use for it right now :-) Find words NOT IN text I'm currently writing a series of articles (that will hopefully get published ) titled "Regex Reminders" that will provide dozens of code snippets that demonstrate…
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