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Recently, I was reviewing some code for a new application and noticed several static methods that were locking to safeguard against concurrently executing threads. However, the majority of these static methods did not involve any static data. So, it seemed...
Whenever I discuss WCF with someone that isn’t very familiar with it, one of the first few questions they ask is typically about performance. Although I have personally witnessed that it is significantly faster than the previous distributed technology...
Back in February, there was an interesting whitepaper published on MSDN regarding the performance of WCF in comparison to the previous technologies: ASMX, .NET Remoting, MSMQ, and Enterprise Services. I just learned about it a few days ago. It apparently...
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...
If you have worked with .NET much at all, then you have undoubtedly used String.Format. It is one of those essential functions that just makes development a lot simpler. However, I have found that a lot of people don't realize they are introducing...
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