.NET

ECMA C# and Common Language Infrastructure Standards

Devin A. Rychetnik — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:34:34 GMT

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/aa569283.aspx
(It has links to things such as the C# language specification and a reference guide to the CIL Instruction Set).

Dependency Injection with Spring.Net

Devin A. Rychetnik — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:05:15 GMT

Good article on dependency injection using Spring.Net: http://www.developer.com/net/csharp/article.php/10918_3722931_1.

Coding Shortcuts in C# 3.0

Devin A. Rychetnik — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:24:56 GMT

Default get/set accessors:

public class Person
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Age { get; set; }
}

Property initialization:

Person author = new Person { Name = "Jay Miller", Age = 40 };

From this article: http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/net30/article.php/c14427/

Cryptographic Solutions for .NET Developers: Hashing and Encryption

Devin A. Rychetnik — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:28:11 GMT

Here is a pretty good introductory article on crypto in .NET: http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_security/encryption/article.php/c14033__1/.

Open-source Distributed Pub/Sub Event System

Devin A. Rychetnik — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:46:03 GMT

This is a huge open-source contribution from Microsoft: http://www.codeplex.com/pubsub.

The Distributed Pub/Sub Event System is a solution for cross-process and/or cross-server scenarios where a large amount of event handshaking is required and low latency is important. Basically, this architecture was designed for speed.

Even if you can't think of a usage scenario for this code-base in your stack right now, I strongly encourage you to just crack open the source and take a look. I personally think the design is a prime example of true software engineering craftmanship, which is simply a thing of beauty.

By the way, I was the one who tested this bad boy before it was released. Therefore, I can't claim rights to the elegant design, but I can claim rights to some of the quality--hopefully not the lack thereof!

WCF NetTcpBinding Lessons Learned

Devin A. Rychetnik — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:43:28 GMT

I just got done with a long afternoon of implementing a Windows Service to self-host my WCF service. It was a bit trickier than I thought it would be so if I can save you the headache I'll be happy.

A good place to start is by reading these two MSDN articles:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/02/WindowsCommunicationFoundation/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/ServiceStation/

Next, you'll want to understand these support articles:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733768.aspx (I needed this to get the wsdl stuff working)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733925.aspx (need to do this before TcpNetBinding will work)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731758.aspx (an example app hosting WCF)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms750530.aspx (more on self-hosting)

.NET Assemblies Lessons Learned

Devin A. Rychetnik — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:58:46 GMT

A few things I learned today while instrumenting some binaries in preparation for performance profiling:

Resigning a .NET assembly is as simple as opening a VS command prompt and entering:

sn –R MyAssembly.dll MyApplicationKey.snk

Browsing the GAC through Windows Explorer -- open a command prompt and enter:

SUBST L: C:\winnt\assembly

Now you can browser the assembly folder using your L drive. This also makes it easier to reference a DLL in GAC inside a VS project.

(tips taken from: http://aspalliance.com/1251_Miscellaneous_Concepts_of_NET__Part_2 & http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Accessing_dlls_in_the_GAC.aspx)

Message Queues in .NET

Devin A. Rychetnik — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:45:04 GMT

A nice little article on leveraging MSMQ in .NET: http://www.builderau.com.au/program/dotnet/soa/Using-message-queue-services-in-NET/0,339028399,339274877,00.htm

Scalable Apps with Asynchronous Programming in ASP.NET

Devin A. Rychetnik — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:56:00 GMT

If asynchronous programming in ASP.NET is something you haven't been doing, then you'll want to check this article out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/03/WickedCode/. Instead of spending more $ on new servers or hardware you might be able to utilize async Pages, Handlers, and Modules to lessen the amount of threads waiting to execute.

Custom Iterators, Predicates, and Generic Methods in .NET

Devin A. Rychetnik — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:28:00 GMT

This article proposes some great ways of making common sequences of operations on lists more reusable in .NET: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/bb264519.aspx. It reminds me of some of the built-in set operations that are available in the SmallTalk programming language.