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Monthly Archives: March 2008
RE: The shocking truth about the C# lock statement
OK, so my example was a bit contrived. In most cases what we do in our critical sections would be more than just adding to a List<>. And in those cases, if an exception is thrown, we would hold the … Continue reading
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The shocking truth about the C# lock statement!
In delving deep into C#, the CLR, IL and what really happens under the hood, I’ve discovered a shocking truth about the commonly used lock statement. Everyone knows that when it’s compiled the lock statement actually uses a light weight … Continue reading
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Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1
As you know, Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 was turned loose on the 5th, but one of the things I didn’t know was that it had Adaptive Streaming – The Silverlight client can adaptively determine the bandwidth between the client and … Continue reading
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The ‘volitile’ myth
OK, I think I should clarify something about what I said in regards to all of the Microsoft JIT’ed assignments are volatile. Yes, that is a true statement, but you cannot simply take that out of context and say “Well, … Continue reading
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