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.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Updated
A while back I blogged about the .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster... We made a few tweaks and updated it, including making it available in more formats. Download Links: Full XPS Split XPS PDF Tiled PDF Enjoy!
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Source code for CLR\BCL 2.0
Great news... Rotor V2.0 ships ... I have found Rotor a great way to look at (mostly) the real source code from the CLR and BCL to see what is really going on under the covers.
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You gotta love the little things in .NET Framework 2.0: File.ReadAllLines()
I was recently reviewing some samples and I ran across one that made me really appreciate the work we did in BCL in .NET Framework 2.0... it maybe a very trivial thing, but it really improves the code. The code sample in question looked something like:
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PowerCollections for V2.0 RTM
Peter just posted a version of the Power Collections for V2.0 . I’d love to hear your feedback on these and the general model. Our goal with helping out Peter and Wintellect with power collections was to provide a first class extension of the existing
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Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters
When in a domain, a machine’s name is limited to 15 characters, but in a workgroup a machine name can be much longer. However, as one of our internal customers noticed, Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters. This is because Environment.ComputerName
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Cool Console Game
You thought Space Invaders! was a cool sample, check out this one: It is a VB 2005 Console based game that rocks. http://www.heroicadventure.com/ It reminds me of sitting in my Dad’s lab at NCSU playing Castle on one of the consoles connected to a mainframe..
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Showing Progress in a Console Windows
Recently I needed to show some progress indicator on some long running console application. I recall the good old days of my college days with console based SMTP clients such as elm and pine … as I recall these clients showed progress via a simple ASCII
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Fun with Equality
Isn’t it funny how the “easiest” concepts can be the most complicated? A reader sent me the following quiz to help us appreciate the subtlies of equality in the system. Luckily he gave me the answers as well… ;-) Consider the following program: object
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Why does my WeakReference throw an InvalidOperationException when I use it from my finalizer?
I saw this answer from Brian Grunkemeyer , a dev on the CLR team, recently… I thought it would generally useful… let me know what you think? A: The reason we throw an exception is pretty simple – WeakReferences are finalizable objects,
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Fun with Generics in Whidbey
I thought I’d share a little of my “app building” fun with you folks. Just for giggles I wrote a command line tool that lists the most frequent commentors on CLR related blogs. Most of the code is screen scraping and not that interesting
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Reflection and Generics
I spent some time last week working on a tool we use internally to print out the C# “header file” view of assemblies. We use it as part of the WinFX API reviews to give an overview of that the API looks like. I am still in the middle of updating,
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[2005] Framework Design Guidelines (First Edition)
[2005] .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2
[2004] .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1
[2004] Base Class Library Reference Poster
[2002] Programming in the .NET Environment
[2008] Framework Design Guidelines (second edition)
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