In this talk, Elliot discusses the history of threading in Windows and surveys thread scheduling, threadpool internals, UI thread behavior, the new ASTA UI infrastructure, and the WinRT async pattern.
[Sample Of Oct 14th] Encrypt and decrypt ASP.NET web configThis sample shows how to use RSA encryption algorithm API to encrypt and decrypt configuration section in order to protect the sensitive information from interception or hijack in ASP.NET web application.
Staying Sharp: Maintaining Your Development SkillsOurs is a field where change is just one of those things you have to live with.
Five Tips to Make Your Code BetterBelow is an excerpt from my weekly newsletter The Trendline. If you enjoyed it, please consider subscribing. Today I want to lay out five tips you can start doing to automatically make your code better.
How not to validate email addressesThis post first appeared in my weekly-ish newsletter about building awesome software. One task I've seen in nearly every web project I've worked on was: make sure this form field is a valid email address.
How to develop unmaintainable softwareI get paid to take on technical debt. In my work I see a lot of hard-to-maintain code, and I see many of the same avoidable problems over and over. I specialize in debugging, fixing, maintaining, and extending legacy software systems.
.NET team makes Portable Class Library (PCL) available on all platformsWe’re happy to share this news from our friends on the .NET team – an update that will make it easier for developers to work across platforms. Check out Rich Lander’s post from the .NET Framework Blog today. By Rich Lander, Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft Corp.
'Spaf' On SecurityHe was one of the first computer scientists to dissect the game-changing worm that hit the Internet 25 years ago and took down thousands of computers. He's also credited for defining software forensics and shaping other security technologies.
ASP.NET MVC 4Represents the result of binding a value (such as from a form post or query string) to an action-method argument property, or to the argument itself.
The ball-of-mud transitionWe’re going to do a little experiment. Take 20 buttons and a ball of string, and scatter the buttons over the floor. Then take two buttons at random, and connect them using a thread. Do this for a while, and keep a count of the number of threads.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.