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Properties Part 2 - defining default properties

Posted Wednesday, August 10, 2005 5:10 PM by arich
Disclaimer. This is an ancient post. By the looks of it, I originally intended to write this almost a year ago, as a follow up to my scalar properties writeup . That was back when I was testing properties (and more exactly, default properties) and some Read More...
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C++ DF Discussion on hold

Posted Monday, January 17, 2005 4:30 PM by arich
Astute readers may note two things: 1) It has been a while since I posted what should have been a followup to the previous posts, wherein I complete my discussion of the C++ DF model, and finally get this DF monkey off my back. And 2) that a previous Read More...
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Deterministic Finalization IV - Benefits, part II

Posted Friday, November 05, 2004 11:52 AM by arich
Long ago , I wrote a post on the first part of DF benefits. Now, I'm finally getting back to it. My apologies about the laxness in posting. Blame it on my Cards losing to the Sox. And on being really busy with testpasses and bug bounces for a while. We're Read More...
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Deterministic Finalization III - Benefits, part 1

Posted Monday, October 18, 2004 2:34 PM by arich
I'm pretty angry at blogs.msdn.com right now (or maybe I'm just angry at myself), as it completely nuked a post I had composed, because my session had timed out on it. I went to post, and it asked me to log in, and in the process destroyed a lot of work. Read More...
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Deterministic Finalization I - a primer for CLR Dispose

Posted Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:49 PM by arich
A large subject like DF needs a few posts. My generalized plan to lay it out will start by describing the CLR's Dispose pattern, how our DF pattern works, and finally how the two patterns fit together. The CLR's Dispose patterns can be quite confusing. Read More...
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The C++ "for each" syntax

Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 6:09 PM by arich
For Each? I won't go into a huge justification - suffice to say, there are some instances where it is nice to be able to iterate over a set, and perform operations on each member of that set. A good primer might be the MSDN node on C# foreach . A basic Read More...
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Pinning Pointers

Posted Friday, August 27, 2004 10:32 AM by arich
Hot on the heels of my article on interior pointers, comes a much more insightful one by Stan Lippman on the same issue . That happens sometimes. I enjoyed the chat we had on the VC++ 2005 Beta, and I wanted to point that there are two other online chats Read More...
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Interior Pointers

Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 1:28 PM by arich
Where's the rest of the properties stuff? I was going to write about default properties in this entry (and have quite a lengthy one saved for future use), but there are a few disagreements I have with the current implementation of default properties, Read More...
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Properties Part 1 - the updated property syntax

Posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 5:38 PM by arich
What are properties? Technically, properties are CLR "aliases." They are exposed as standard methods, and any compiler that consumes them simply transforms the user's code into the proper function calls. Similarly, any compiler that wants to author CLR Read More...
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VC++ Whidbey Beta1 Ships!

Posted Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:46 PM by arich
Finally! VC++ 2005 Beta1 has dropped, and we had a little party last Friday to celebrate. It was nothing fancy, and I spent most of my time playing bridge in a corner. The full beta is only available to MSDN Subscribers now, and selected partners, but Read More...
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Visual C++ .NET 2003, Free.

Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 10:36 AM by arich
Go here to get a free command-line version of VC++ .NET 2003. For you misers, I'm sure you could trick the 7.0 IDE (or even the 6.0 one) into using these new binaries. This was mentioned on Slashdot on Sunday. I'd recommend carefully reading the included Read More...
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Status, aggregate initialization of CLI arrays

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:41 AM by arich
This is a quickie . I have some other blog posts about interesting material on the horizon, but I'm always wary of posting information without knowing whether I'm going to violate NDA by writing about it. There should be a real flurry of activity when Read More...
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The CLR team is looking for a few good people

Posted Saturday, March 06, 2004 1:02 PM by arich
Joel just posted over on his blog that the CLR team has some open headcount - they're looking to fill a few positions. I can say that working for Microsoft has been one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my short life (pay no attention Read More...
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Ain't said nothin' in a while, but some old posts are now available.

Posted Monday, January 12, 2004 11:25 AM by arich
Where you been? Yes, it's true, I've been fairly silent. But I assure you, my reason(s) are good. Mostly, I've been skiing in Colorado, or really busy. But I'm back at work, and once I catch up on the email, there will be more tasty posts from yours truly. Read More...
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Pointer to String chars - Everett style

Posted Monday, December 22, 2003 2:51 PM by arich
Garrett asked: If the source text is in a CLR String, and we want to pass(even read-only) to unmanaged code, it appears that there is no way to get a pointer to the String's buffer directly. We have to use the marshalling stuff to get it there, which Read More...
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