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Implementing Timeout & Retry

I have come across several situations where I need some sort of Timeout functionality for a particular operation. At the same time, I also needed a provision for retrying the operation a few times before calling quits. I thought about a solution using...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2006 5:58 PM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

Predicates in Action

Get to know about one of the cool new things in .NET 2.0 - Predicates!...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2006 1:12 PM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

Tip: Debugging Windows Services

The other day, I was watching the PDC presentations on WCF and one of them was on hosting WCF services by Steve Maine. Part of the presentation was about hosting Indigo on Windows services (or NT Services). One of the demos had a small and very interesting...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2006 12:25 AM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

Useful additions in .NET 2.0 - Part 3: EventHandler<TEventArgs>

If your .NET class needs to generate events, at a minimum, you typically do the following: 1) Create a new class which derived from EventArgs – the instance of this class would be used to communicate certain information to the event handler about the...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2006 12:28 AM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

Useful additions to .NET 2.0 - Part 2: Nullable Types

Nullable types, put in simple terms can be thought of as a way of having nullable value types. Quite obviously, one of the largest applicability of this concept is that of database programming, where you can associate a null value with any datatype. Not...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2005 12:14 PM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

BackgroundWorker and SynchronizationContext

I have mentioned umpteen number of times earlier - .NET 2.0 comes with a wealth of new classes that have been added to the BCL. Today’s turn is of BackgroundWorker . If you look at the available documentation (circa Beta 2), this is what you will find...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2005 10:40 AM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

Small, but useful additions in .NET 2.0 – Part 1

The BCL in .NET 2.0 has a plethora of small additions, which are not that visible, but are very useful. I’ll try to cover many of these in my subsequent posts. String.IsNullOrEmpty is one such method. As the name would indicate, this method returns true...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2005 10:31 AM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

SetMaxThreads: A good addition to the ThreadPool class in 2.0

The ThreadPool class is very handy to developers. You could queue a method to run on a separate thread and forget about it, without worrying about managing the thread object or about a possible thread explosion scenario. That’s because the .NET...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2005 8:18 PM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

DataSets - A journey from a boon, to a bane and back

One of the biggest cribs about the DataSet in .NET 1.0 and 1.1 was its serialization performance. The DataSet, albeit providing a rich object model to work with data in a disconnected way, was a bane when it came to passing it across tiers of the application...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2005 3:31 PM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

Stopwatch your code!

Timing managed code is one thing I do quite often. I guess measurement of the method level execution times is a common task for any application developer for that matter. I have used various methods for measurement; the worst of them all is using DateTime...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2005 7:46 PM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

InternalsVisibleToAttribute - Friend Assemblies

You come across several situations where you need to develop a set of class libraries, say a framework of sorts, and there are several classes within certain assemblies which need to be marked as internal. You go ahead and mark them as internal, and then...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2005 10:24 PM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

HttpListener in .NET 2.0 - Creating new possibilities

Microsoft's vision of the .NET Framework was a that of a platform for developing Web Services; the primary motivation behind this inception being ease and productivity for developers, and performance and scalability for the deployed applications. Developers...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2005 2:28 AM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

DBProviderFactory - Old wine in a new bottle, but good nonetheless

Quite a while back, I had posted an article in CodeProject titled " Implementing a Provider Independent Data Access Layer in .NET ". This article illustrated the usage of a simple provider factory, with which data access could be made generic...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2004 7:40 PM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

My real peek at VB 2005!

My start with VS 2005 has rather been a bit sluggish. I didn’t really work much with the Community Tech Preview, but when I got the Beta 1, I decided to get my hands real dirty with it. At about the same time, I cam across a few excellent resources...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2004 5:16 PM by Manoj G

Filed under: .NET 2.0

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Implementing Timeout & Retry

Predicates in Action

Tip: Debugging Windows Services

Useful additions in .NET 2.0 - Part 3: EventHandler<TEventArgs>

Useful additions to .NET 2.0 - Part 2: Nullable Types

BackgroundWorker and SynchronizationContext

Small, but useful additions in .NET 2.0 – Part 1

SetMaxThreads: A good addition to the ThreadPool class in 2.0

DataSets - A journey from a boon, to a bane and back

Stopwatch your code!

InternalsVisibleToAttribute - Friend Assemblies

HttpListener in .NET 2.0 - Creating new possibilities

DBProviderFactory - Old wine in a new bottle, but good nonetheless

My real peek at VB 2005!