Windows SideShow .NET Framework Components 1.0 (Beta)
Well, I’m very pleased to announce that the “Windows SideShow .NET Framework Components 1.0 (Beta)” is avialable as of today (January 18, 2007). You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=06FA2ACE-A42D-4117-821C-BCE80786F1C4&displaylang=en […]
Jeffrey Richter Update
Hi all, I have been silent on the blog as usual but thought I’d add an entry today bring you up-to-date on my activities. I have been extremely busy. Wintellect […]
Accessing Power Collections
The Power Collections Library on https://training.atmosera.com no longer requires that you register with Wintellect. As of yesterday, you can simply download the file and start using the Power Collections immediately. […]
New book, new course, new magazine column, new consulting gig, new technologies, and a new vacation
Well, it has been a long since I last blogged and I’ve been incredibly busy the past year. I thought I’d share with you some of the things I’ve done […]
.NET Questions regarding JIT compiler/strong-naming security
A reader of my books asked me some .NET Questions regarding JIT compiler/strong-naming security. I thought I’d share his questions and my answers with you: 1. According to Microsoft documentation […]
I wish I had patented the idea of Zero, it was my idea first, really!
Today, I discovered that Microsoft was filing a patent for “an operator that returns true when two memory addresses are not equal”! See http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959. Surely, we can still […]
Field access versus local variable access performance
Recently, I was at a customer site and they were comparing the performance of a function that was written in unmanaged C with its C# equivalent. As they expected, the […]
TinyCLR and a Stamp
Last Thursday, a friend of mine from days gone by contacted me and invited me to a meeting. I met my friend when I started consulting for Microsoft about 12 […]
Devscovery Ponderrings
Last week was very hectic with Devscovery Redmond in full swing. It was a great event and I really think I connected with the audience. I had a lot of […]