Posts by Jeffrey Richter

In version 2.0 of the .NET Framework, Microsoft introduced the System.Threading. SynchronizationContext class. Simply stated, a SynchronizationContext-derived object connects an application model to its threading model. The FCL defines several classes derived from SynchronizationContext, but usually you will not deal directly with these classes; in fact, many of them are not publicly exposed or documented.…

Recently, I was involved in a Wintellect consulting engagement where a customer had some class library code that was created years ago. The code in this class library was not designed to work well in a multithreaded environment. Specifically, this means that if two or more threads called into the class library code at the…

You can find Part 1 here: http://blogs.msdn.com/devpara/archive/2010/03/16/jeffrey-richter-at-devweek-2010-part-1.aspx and Part 2 here: http://blogs.msdn.com/devpara/archive/2010/03/16/jeffrey-richter-at-devweek-2010-part-2.aspx

Hello all, I just wanted to tell everyone that my book, CLR via C# 3rd Edition, went to the printer this week and should be in stores in early February! The book has been updated for Visual Studio 2010, CLR 4.0 and C# 4.0. The source code for the book is available now and can…

Last week I submitted the reaming chapters for my new book. It is now being edited and should be available right around the time that Visual Studio 2010 launches (March 22, 2010). One place you can order it is here: http://www.amazon.com/CLR-via-C-Third-Pro-Developer/dp/0735627045 I know that many people will ask me what are the differences between the…

I’ve been doing a lot of work with the new Task class that ships with .NET 4.0 as I’ve been revising my CLR via C# book (due out in early 2010). Task are really good for performing asynchronous compute-bound work and while my AsyncEnumerator was really designed for performing I/O-bound work using the CLR’s APM,…