Blogs|Nov 13, 2004

Field access versus local variable access performance

Recently, I was at a customer site and they were comparing the performance of a function that was written in unmanaged C with its C# equivalent. As they expected, the C code was performing much faster than the C# code. However, I didn’t expect this. Once managed code is JIT compiled, the code is very…
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wintellect-blogs|Sep 19, 2004

TinyCLR and a Stamp

Last Thursday, a friend of mine from days gone by contacted me and invited me to a meeting. I met my friend when I started consulting for Microsoft about 12 yerars ago when he and I were both working on the first 32-bit version of Visual Studio (code name: “Barracuda”). Today, my friend works in…
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wintellect-blogs|Sep 7, 2004

Devscovery Ponderrings

Last week was very hectic with Devscovery Redmond in full swing. It was a great event and I really think I connected with the audience. I had a lot of conversations between sessions and at the end of each day. In particular, during the reception, I had a whiteboard session where I was with 4…
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wintellect-blogs|Aug 10, 2004

Jeffrey Richter on .NET Rocks!

Oh, I forget to tell everyone that I was on episode #73 of .NET Rocks! Check it out here.   By the way, I said in the show that Whidbey Click Once uses the BITS (code name “drizzle”) technology that has been in Windows for many years now. However, someone at Microsoft informed me that…
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wintellect-blogs|Aug 9, 2004

My Birthday, A Tablet PC Project, and Vacation

July 27th was my 40th birthday and Kristin, my wife, surprised me with an awesome present. First, she got her mother to babysit our son. Then, she contacted 6 of our friends and invited them to join us as we flew from Seattle to Coeur d’Alene Idaho. There she rented a van and we all drive…
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wintellect-blogs|Jul 6, 2004

Amazing Race

I enjoy the Amazing Race too. If I get picked for Survivor, I don’t know what I’d do. I don’t think I’d last the plane ride to wherever. I’m a 100% city boy. Sometimes, living in Seattle is pushing it for me. I’d love living in New York or London.
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wintellect-blogs|Jul 4, 2004

Jeff Richter’s First Blog Entry Ever

Well, I’ve had several people ask me to start blogging and I’m finally breaking down and doing it. Recently, I started getting into RSS and I am much more of a believer in blogs now since new entries are pushed down to people who care about my comings and goings.   Since August of 2003,…
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