http://www.lenholgate.com/ Len Holgate's thoughts on this and that... Mainly test driven software development in C++ on Windows platforms... - .Net en-us Len.Holgate@JetByte.com 2007-07-31T13:15:57+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000715.html It's interesting, no, really, how the more things change the more they stay the same... I've been doing COM for a long time. I first discovered COM back at Interlink when I was writing a windows version of a product... Posted by Len at 01:15 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , CLR Hosting , Socket Servers ]]> 715@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Socket Servers 2007-07-31T13:15:57+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000712.html I've spent some time over the last few days playing around with my CLR hosting socket server example. I had stalled on a piece of client work, I've got a bit of a head cold at the moment and my... Posted by Len at 10:32 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , CLR Hosting , Socket Servers ]]> 712@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Socket Servers 2007-07-24T22:32:15+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000684.html The work on the CLR hosting socket server example is going pretty well. I now have a server that can pass server notifications to managed code that either runs in an AppDomain per connection or within a single AppDomain (depending... Posted by Len at 12:51 PM | Comments (4) | Categories: .Net , CLR Hosting , Socket Servers ]]> 684@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Socket Servers 2007-03-20T12:51:41+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000683.html My investigations into CLR hosting are going well and today I built an echo sever based on my latest server framework and my CLR Hosting helper library. The idea is that the server can deal with the network IO and... Posted by Len at 05:49 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , CLR Hosting , Socket Servers ]]> 683@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Socket Servers 2007-03-15T17:49:10+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000679.html Nice to see that the new beta, sorry, CTP, of the next .Net Framework will increase the performance of .Net sockets by 70%! Way to go .Net dudes.... Interesting to see that it's a joint effort between the System.Net people... Posted by Len at 04:35 AM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak ]]> 679@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2007-03-05T04:35:35+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000678.html Back in July Joe Duffy wrote an interesting piece on the CLR thread pool. I commented on it then, here. He's now written another piece about why they increased the maximum number of threads in "the thread pool" from 25/cpu... Posted by Len at 04:30 AM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak ]]> 678@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2007-03-05T04:30:38+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000676.html This is mainly a reminder for me so that I can read this when I get back from Jackson Hole... Dino Viehland has written some interesting looking blog posts on how to implement the thread/task and syncrhonisation host managers for... Posted by Len at 12:13 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , CLR Hosting , Geek Speak ]]> 676@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2007-02-13T12:13:08+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000675.html I'm still playing with hosting the CLR in C++ (using "Customizing the Microsoft.NET Framework Common Language Runtime" by Steven Pratschner as my guide)... It's an interesting journey but, once again, I wonder who makes the important technical decisions at Microsoft... Posted by Len at 04:41 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , CLR Hosting , Rants ]]> 675@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Rants 2007-02-12T16:41:03+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000674.html I'm playing around with hosting the CLR in C++ at present and have come across a bit of crapness in the mscoree.h file... #if (_MSC_VER typedef VOID ( __stdcall *WAITORTIMERCALLBACK )( PVOID __MIDL_0011, BOOL __MIDL_0012); #endif // (_MSC_VER... Posted by Len at 03:49 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , CLR Hosting , Geek Speak ]]> 674@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2007-02-08T15:49:33+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000656.html Joe Duffy has written an interesting piece over on "Generalities & Details: Adventures in the High-tech Underbelly" about problems with the CLR thread pool. Joe's a program manager on the CLR team at Microsoft, so he knows what he's talking... Posted by Len at 08:47 AM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak ]]> 656@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2006-07-12T08:47:38+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000613.html So here I am, writing a piece about how the C++/CLI destructor and finalizer stuff could have been a bit neater and I put together some sample code to demonstrate my point and it doesn't do what the docs I... Posted by Len at 01:36 PM | Comments (2) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak ]]> 613@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2006-01-08T13:36:48+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000578.html Whilst I'm ranting about the little things... You still can't create named versions of the .Net ManualResetEvent and AutoResetEvent, even in .Net 2.0. Wasn't everything going to be fixed in Whidbey?... Posted by Len at 06:01 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak , Rants ]]> 578@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-11-15T18:01:45+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000516.html Ted Neward has a very nice piece about the new language features in C# v3 and how they work together to provide something quite powerful. Go read it! Given that implicit typing, object initialisers and extension methods are all designed... Posted by Len at 09:02 AM | Comments (1) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak ]]> 516@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-09-22T09:02:53+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000509.html Having looked through the slides that Vagn pointed me to in a comment to my recent post about C# v3.0 Extension Methods I can understand, a little more, about the reasoning behind the change to the language. Given that the... Posted by Len at 11:37 AM | Comments (2) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak ]]> 509@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-09-19T11:37:56+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000504.html There's a lot of noise coming out of the Microsoft PDC right now. Something that interested me was the future direction of C#; you can grab the spec from here. It seems they're adding "extension methods" which, to me, appear... Posted by Len at 03:12 PM | Comments (7) | Categories: .Net , Dumbing down is dumb , Geek Speak ]]> 504@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-09-16T15:12:36+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000503.html I've been merging my UDP framework development branch back to main, building all of my example servers and running all of the "black box" server tests. In doing so I've experienced the pain of changing virtual function signatures. This is... Posted by Len at 12:22 PM | Comments (2) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak ]]> 503@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-09-16T12:22:21+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000494.html I have some code that launches another process in a suspended state, does some stuff (tm) and then resumes the process. This uses CreateProcess() and works fine on unmanaged exes. When I try and launch a manged exe with the... Posted by Len at 10:06 AM | Comments (1) | Categories: .Net , Debugging Tools , Geek Speak ]]> 494@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-09-08T10:06:48+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000472.html Jeff Atwood has a nice piece on the productivity of different programming languages (go read it). His sums up with the following: Given .. 1). the abandonment of C++ and C for mainstream programming 2). the huge influence of individual... Posted by Len at 03:16 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak ]]> 472@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-08-19T15:16:03+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000470.html Geoff Appleby discovers that a common C++ template idiom doesn't work with .Net generics. The code that doesn't work is this: Public Class Class1(Of V As System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol) Inherits V End Class which is the .Net generics equivalent of this common... Posted by Len at 07:09 PM | Comments (0) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak ]]> 470@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-08-17T19:09:04+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000465.html So, Richard Hale Shaw is helping us move away from C++ and in his latest posting on the subject he explains how "veteran C++ programmers" don't like to manage memory themselves; hmm. I'd quite like to see his sample data.... Posted by Len at 07:26 AM | Comments (5) | Categories: .Net , Geek Speak ]]> 465@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Geek Speak 2005-08-12T07:26:53+00:00 http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000440.html There's a rather disappointing article on .Net sockets in this month's MSDN magazine.... Posted by Len at 11:22 PM | Comments (13) | Categories: .Net , Socket Servers ]]> 440@http://www.lenholgate.com/ Socket Servers 2005-07-22T23:22:31+00:00