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After postponing the release date due to performance issues new release date of Visual Studio 2010 has been announced yesterday. So we will be able to enjoy new toys at April 12. For those of you who likes to try new tools before full release – you can download a Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and start exploring the new Microsoft's offering for developers. Enjoy, Yevgeni
Recently I needed to measure an exact size in memory for a string – asked a developer sitting next to me how would he do it. An answer was: “Take a string’s length multiply by 2(it’s a UTF-8 encoding) – you will get an exact size”. Well this answer was wrong… And the explanation is in a definition of UTF-8 encoding. Here is a quote from Wikipedia : UTF-8 (8- bit UCS / Unicode Transformation Format ) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode . It is able to represent any character in the...
For those of you who enjoy playing with brand new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Training Kit was released, so have fun… Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit .
Since after Windows Azure goes to release at PDC 2009 this November – all the services are going to be a paid services – following is a great news for cloud developers. In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition, among zillions of features, there is a complete toolbox for Windows Azure developers and this edition will include 250 hours/month of Azure cloud computing(Compute hours, Storage, SQL Azure , .NET Services ). Related Links: ScottGu’s post: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/19/vs...
Today was published release date of Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and final release dates. Currently it’s October 21 for Beta 2 and March 22, 2010 for Final Release. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/19/visual_studio_2010_second_beta_packaging/
There are allots of improvements that can be done within application’s configuration file the only catch with it – you have to know that it’s exists. In this post I will show how to improve garbage collection performance according to application’s type. There are 3 modes of garbage collection that can be defined in a configuration file: Workstation mode with enabled Concurrent flag Workstation mode with disabled Concurrent flag Server mode Workstation mode with enabled Concurrent flag This mode is...
Today’s Codeproject’s newsletter was full of pretty exciting news that I have to share with you, so it goes like this: 1. IE 8.0 will be released today – this published by Coputerworld news site. 2. Microsoft released SuperPreview - great tool for validation website’s look in known browsers(now available for IE 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 in full release will be able to validate for another browsers) – published at ZDnet 3. A great post by Tim Heuer with a list of new features of Silverlight 3.0 Beta that was...
Today I was amazed getting an email from Guy Burstein saying that I got an award “ Blogger of the month ” in Microsoft’s monthly magazine MSDN Pulse . What can I say, it’s a great feeling to get such appreciation from the community. It’s one of those things that causes you to sit down and write more and more… For those of you that still don’t get an MSDN Pulse by email. You can find a subscription data at the bottom of a magazine’s page or contact Guy Burstein directly and get tons of hottest...
Recently at VSLive! San Francisco 2009 new Visual Studio 2010 key features were presented by Jason Zander , brief description of it is published this article . In Jason’s blog several screenshots of our new toy can be found.
In one of my previous post about IIS 7.0 data compression I’ve described how to enable this functionality, without drilldown to recommended configuration values . In this great post Scott Forsyth known specialist in IIS performance area made a great job on testing IIS 7.0 server performance under various configurations and with different files sizes. It helped me a lot , so I recommend to add this post to your favorites: IIS 7 Compression. Good? Bad? How much? Enjoy.
Well, yes that is a message I’ve got recently. Actually this message comes in two variations: When Windows Live Messenger process does not exists and I try to open a Team Explorer : When Windows Live Messenger process is active and I try to open Team Explorer : Here can be found great description of the problem by Stuart Preston . Briefly, the problem is with Power Tools for TFS that tries to look for registry value that does not exists. Stuart’s solution contain step of windows registry changes...
New module was released by Microsoft’s IIS team , It contains several improvements: Blocking of IP address based on number of concurrent requests Blocking of IP address based on number of requests over a period of time Various deny actions Logging of defined requests Display currently blocked IP addresses IPv6 support Full description and download link can be found here: IP restrictions module
Well it took me awhile, but yes I’m MCPD Enterprise Developer now. I’ve started to teach young developers in our company long time before a I’ve ended my exams(maybe that’s why it took me more than a year, or not…). So I’ve seen how those certification can help to develop strong programming fundamentals and awareness of existing .NET technologies and tools. Usually we run towards to another technological adventure without getting deep into fundamentals or exploring the full range of tools supplied...