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03 August 2007
Random Ramblings Over Ruby On Microsoft .NET

Martin Fowler argues that IronRuby gives Microsoft the opportunity to collaborate with, and extend its .NET platform to a larger AlphaGeeks and open source developer base. According to Martin the Ruby community is very eager to develop on the Microsoft platform. One thing that caught my attention was... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, C#, Martin Fowler, Java, Mircosoft, IronRuby, Ruby, Open Source

25 June 2007
Common .NET Memory Issues

Charl Botha, senior developer at Intervate , and I had some discussions around .NET memory issues, and how to measure the size of a CLR object in memory. Here's what Charl had to say: "I have yet to discover how one can retrieve the size of an object in pure CLR, the method that I used was to... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Memory Issues, C#, Delegates, Streams, Threading

14 May 2007
Bulk Update and Insert of Object State Stored by SQL Server 2000, Using .NET (C#)

This is a how to/quick start for doing bulk inserts or updates of data on SQL Server 2000 and .NET. 1. Create a simple class: using System; ... ... [Serializable] public class Entity { private int _id; private string _name; private string _description; public int ID { get { return _id; } } public string... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Data Access, Serialization, XML, C#, SQL Server

19 April 2007
.NET Memory Leak: XmlSerializing your way to a Memory Leak

Tess Ferrandez talks about a .NET memory leak , caused by using the default constructors other than, XmlSerializer(type) and XmlSerializer(type, defaultNameSpace), when XML serializing objects. In a nut shell, dynamic code generation, which is used in XML Serialization, Regular Expressions, and XSLT... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Serialization, Memory Issues

19 January 2007
.NET How To Create and Use Custom Name-Value Config Sections

Making over-use of the .NET's AppSettings quickly results in a messy configuration file. Especially when several assemblies' configurations are combined, it's quite painful trying to figure out which settings are for which assemblies. Some of the assemblies might even use the same setting keys, causing... Read More...

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Filed under: Configuration, NameValueSectionHandler, .config, AppSettings, NameValueCollection, .NET