Monthly Archives: March 2010

I remember that the first time I heard it, it seemed strange that the same thread could have parts of its stack running in different Appdomains. Since it’s possible to unload an AppDomain, the CLR needs to have a way … Continue reading →

There’s a good post on the problems of meshing the deterministic finalization of the COM world with the heuristic driven garbage collection of the managed world. In particular the trick of using ReleaseComObject to deterministically clean up the COM objects … Continue reading →

I was lucky in the week to get a day at DevWeek. On the Wednesday I got to attend 4 sessions with a choice of 8 tracks across a very wide range of topics. Cool graphics, hot code: ten visual … Continue reading →

Something that has been missing for the .NET framework for a while is a weak hashtable. This kind of datatype is useful as it allows you to associate data with an object in a way that allows the data to … Continue reading →

There’s always a lot of talk about profiling your application, because it’s really hard to tell from the source code where the bottlenecks are going to be. There’s a fascinating example here that shows that there can be subtle interactions … Continue reading →