Jeff W. Barnes

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VS2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1
In case you haven't heard, Microsoft has formally announced plans to provide a service pack (SP1) for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 by the end of the year. There is a long list of items that will be included, but the most notable one to...
To StringBuilder Or Not To StringBuilder
Between work and stuff going on in my personal life, there hasn't been a lot of spare time for blogging and developer community things over the last few weeks. Hopefully, that will be changing in the near future. In the meantime, I wanted to squeeze...
WCF 3.5: Syndication Feeds
In .NET 3.0, WCF did not have any built-in support for syndication feeds, such as RSS and ATOM. As a result, it was necessary to roll your own solution anytime you wanted to render a syndication feed from your service. While this wasn't an incredibly...
ITAC Lunch and Learn for .NET on Dec 4th
ITAC Solutions has organized an upcoming lunch and learn event. The topic will be "The Future of .NET Development", and I have been asked to deliver the presentation. This will be a bit different from my typical in-depth technical sessions....
Reflector 5.0 Released
I have been trying to avoid reposting content that is already circulating the blogosphere, but this is a particularly useful announcement that is deserving of maximum exposure. Late last night, Lutz Roeder released the latest version of Reflector . He...
Birmingham .NET Framework 3.0 Launch Event
I meant to blog a reminder about the event last week, but I am a little late now. Today was the local launch event for .NET Framework 3.0. Unfortunately, I missed it. It has been one of those weeks where there literally just aren't enough hours in each...
File Checksum Performance Comparison
Last week, I made a brief post about easily using some of the cryptographic hash algorithms available in the .NET Framework for the purpose of generating a file checksum. After giving it some thought, I decided to do a follow-up post and compare the general...
File Checksum using .NET
It seems there are a number of people out there who attempt to write their own checksum algorithms for validating the integrity of a file. However, these type of algorithms need to be incredibly reliable. Unfortunately, the "home-grown" version is often...
.NET Framework 3.0 RTM
It is pratically old news at this point, but the RTM version of .NET Framework 3.0 (WinFX) has been released for download. I took the plunge and installed the runtime on my VPS that is used to host this site. This will finally allow me to start hosting...
Maximize Performance with SqlDataReader
I recently took a closer look to compare the performance variations among some of the possible ways to interact with a SqlDataReader object (ordinal position, column name, etc). Before you start telling me that I wasn't thorough, I never intended...
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