Blogs|Apr 11, 2013

Microsoft and Wintellect Present – Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter

I am doing a FREE full-day seminar on programming for Windows Azure in 4 cities in mid-May 2011. The New York event will be broadcast live over the internet. To register for an in-person event, please see https://training.atmosera.com/Training/Courses/Topic/Cloud. To register for the live streaming event, please see https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032484438&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US.
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Blogs|Apr 11, 2013

Wintellect Azure Contest for XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle

Wintellect is conducting a contest where you could win an XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle. THis contest requires minimal effort from you. To register, all you have to do is signup up for a free Windows Azure pass and deploy a service that is provided for you. You do not need to install anything on your…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 24, 2012

We Are Hiring!

Business is good and we need YOU! Wintellect is currently seeking senior level technical development resources for both contract and permanent employment for our current client projects. If you want the challenge of keeping up with co-workers like Jeffrey Richter, Jeff Prosise, Keith Rome, or Jeremy Likness, have we got the opportunity of a lifetime.…
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Blogs|Sep 20, 2011

Core .NET Types Usable from a Metro Style Application

When you create a new .NET Metro style application in Visual Studio, it spits out a project template that doesn’t reference any .NET assemblies. Well, this isn’t completely true, because when you run the C# compiler it references MSCorLib.dll by default. For a Metro style application, the referenced MSCorLib.dll contains a bunch of TypeForwardedToAttribute attributes…
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Blogs|Sep 20, 2011

Using the Windows Runtime from a Non-Metro Application

I know a lot of people believe that the new Windows Runtime APIs included in Windows 8 can only be accessed from Metro style applications. A big part of the reason why people believe this is because the version of Visual Studio that ships with the Windows 8 Developer Preview only supports creating Metro style…
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wintellect-blogs|Jun 8, 2011

Links to resources involving Jeffrey Richter

Recently, I have been involved with some videos related to threading and Windows Azure which I’d like to share with you: I was the guest on an episode of AppFabric.TV released today! In this episode, I explain how asynchronous programming allows you to build scalable services. Watch the video here. I recently did a Windows…
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Blogs|Mar 17, 2011

Weak Event Handlers

In a few editions of my book, I showed how to implement weak event handlers which allow an object to be GCd if no other reference is keeping the object alive. If the object is alive, it recieves the event notification and if it isn’t alive, it doesn’t receive the event notification. It has come…
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Blogs|Sep 27, 2010

Logical Call Context: Flowing Data across Threads, AppDomains, and Processes

Many developers are familiar with Thread Local Storage (TLS) as a mechanism allowing you to associate a piece of data with a thread. I usually discourage people from using TLS because I recommend architecting applications to perform their operations using thread pool threads. TLS doesn’t work with the thread pool because different thread pool threads…
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