The last weeks I've been on the road together with my valued collegue Bernd Marquardt showing a couple of selected Microsoft partners what's coming with Vista and WinFX for developers.
Here's an excerpt of the agenda:
I love Outlook, but there are times where it gets really hard to love it. But there's hope!
Here are solutions that solve two of the most annoying things I encountered with Outlook:
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Nice, at the unique Microsoft WinDays 2006 conference in Opatija, Croatia, my session on
Team Development with Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS)
was voted the best session of all ~ 170 sessions!
(average vote was 4.8579 where 5 is the best grade)
And my Team System MVP fellow Ognjen Bajic got the 2nd best voted session. Congratulation, Ognjen!
Last, but not least, Damir Tomicic delivered the best voted opening keynote!
Update: See also this post.
If you have developed traditional Windows Client/Server applications on single-CPU machines for all your life the development of thread-safe code is probably something you did not had to bother.
Here are a few interesting links on how to do it correctly:
- .NET Framework General Reference: Threading Design Guidelines
- Implementing the Singleton Pattern in C#
- Choosing What To Lock On
- Brad Abrams: volatile and MemoryBarrier()...
- Concurrent Affairs: Build a Richer Thread Synchronization Lock -- MSDN Magazine, March 2006
- .NET Matters: Abortable Thread Pool -- MSDN Magazine, March 2006
- Memory Models: Understand the Impact of Low-Lock Techniques in Multithreaded Apps -- MSDN Magazine, October 2005
- Concurrent Affairs: Performance-Conscious Thread Synchronization -- MSDN Magazine, October 2005
- Concurrency: What Every Dev Must Know About Multithreaded Apps -- MSDN Magazine, August 2005
- Make It Snappy: Juice Up Your App with the Power of Hyper-Threading -- MSDN Magazine, June 2005
- Basic Instincts: Thread Synchronization -- MSDN Magazine, September 2004
- Basic Instincts: Creating and Managing Secondary Threads -- MSDN Magazine, June 2004
- Windows Forms: Give Your .NET-based Application a Fast and Responsive UI with Multiple Threads -- MSDN Magazine, February 2003
- Basic Instincts: Updating the UI from a Secondary Thread -- MSDN Magazine, May 2004
- .NET: Practical Multithreading for Client Apps -- MSDN Magazine, January 2004
Further must-reads? Leave a comment, please!
After years of waiting we finally have our own developer font - specially designed for the needs for developers.
The installation package automatically configures it as default font for Visual Studio 2005:
"Consolas is a monospaced font (like an old typewriter) and good for programmers setting code (its core purpose). "
via Damir's Blog
Addendum: Using Consolas as the Windows Console Font
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