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A .NET Assembly for Cloning Objects with Arbitrary Field Value Changes: IcManipluator

Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 2:45 PM by RickM
After my last post, “ A Safe and Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL and Inheritance ”, I ordered a few books and spent some time playing with generating IL. Along the way I’ve developed a library which allows you to make a franken-clone of Read More...
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A Safe and Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL and Inheritance

Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:32 PM by RickM
Because .NET Streams have state, they are difficult to use in multithreaded environments. In this post I discuss ways to manage or work around problems arising from the statefulness of .NET Streams. I explain how this is possible both through traditional Read More...
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Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files?

Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 3:45 PM by RickM
It's time to leave the secondary, external structure of our programs behind. If you can treat the reflected code from a programming language like an abstract data structure, why can’t you just keep the source itself in a similarly abstracted data structure? Read More...
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Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application (.NET Memory Management: Part 4)

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:11 PM by RickM
Tuning the garbage collector to the specific context of the particular application can significantly improve the performance of both non-threaded and multi-threaded applications. In this post I discuss the gcConcurrent and gcServer settings which allow Read More...
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Custom Serializing Objects for Use in a Debugger Visualizer

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:02 PM by RickM
I have a new CodeProject article up which details how to make a Debugger Visualizer in the case where you need to custom serialize the object. The actual classes I build in the tutorial are only useful with our DotImage project line. However, the process Read More...
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Increasing the Size of your Stack (.NET Memory Management: Part 3)

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:45 PM by RickM
In the previous article I discussed a few of the benefits of stack allocation as well as a couple of C# keywords which help you to leverage those benefits. However, the one megabyte default stack size is too small for stack allocation to be used with Read More...
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Improving Performance Through Stack Allocation (.NET Memory Management: Part 2)

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:06 AM by RickM
Articles in This Series Part 1 – Basic Housekeeping Part 2 – Improving Performance Through Stack Allocation Part 3 – Increasing the Size of your Stack Part 4 – Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings Introduction In C#, when you create managed objects Read More...
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Counting Processors in .NET: The Pros and Cons of Five Different Methods

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:54 PM by RickM
There are a great number of different ways to count the number of processors available to the .NET developer. In this post I will go over some of the more common methods and their pros and cons. The Envirionment.ProcessorCount Way Code: Environment .ProcessorCount; Read More...
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Improving .Net Performance With Ngen: The Native Image Generator

Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:47 AM by RickM
One of the most often cited reasons to not use .NET is that it is initially compiled to an intermediary language (MSIL) and has to be recompiled every time you run it. In many high performance environments this wasted time is simply unacceptable. To combat Read More...
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