Century

Hey, with the last post i've completed 100 postings... what a great slow start.. let's see where will i go with what accelaration... it's party time ...

.NET Framework 3.0 Website

Microsoft recently started a website for .NET Framework 3.0 and the RC1 is ready for download from there.

This site seems to be really interesting and could find lots of lots of lots of lots of information, did you visited that ?

MSDN New look

At the welcome page of MSDN Library, there is a new link redirecting to the new look and feel for the MSDN Libraray.

Anyhow, as New always interesting, this new look is also eye-catchy. Did you see that ?

Orcus Forums

Recently a new forum is being initiated at Microsoft MSND Forums with the title being, "Visual Studio Orcus"

Did you try this?

Bolgs at MSDN by Tags

Do you know that you can reach people who blog on a specific topic at MSDNBlogs? There is a way, go to http://blogs.msdn.com/tags/

Here you see different topics and click on them to see, who blogs on that topic. Generally i have a feed to common blogs.msdn.com and from there read all posts that interest me.

Did you try this ?

USING - C# Key word

I've been asking a question about this key word on every interview. Most of them think that this is used only to reference the base class, apart of that, there is also a great usage with this key word. This key word, USING, can be used to destroy the objects (automatically) when they are no longer required in the memory.

At times, the developer will forget to write the code to destroy the created objects. These objects pile up on system memory and wait for the GC to collect and clean them. How it would be if they are cleanned as soon they finish their requirement? That would be great coding and you are reducing the work for GC during the collection process.

Here is how to accomplish the same. First, implement the IDisposable interface on the object that you are planning to implement automatic collection and allow CLR to release the allocated memory as soon this object is no longer required.

class SmpCls: IDisposable
{
void IDisposable.Dispose()
{
Console.WriteLine("Disposing the object and cleaning");
}
public string RetHelo()
{
return "Hello World!! Happy coding ..";
}
}

While creating the object out of this class do the following way. Implement the object in the following code.

using (SmpCls obj as new SmpCls())
{
.....
.....
}

One advantage by doing this is you never required to worry about GC active, clean and clear the heap .. blah, blah ..

What are your comments

Encyclopedia for C#

Recently Micorsoft lanuched a single place for all C# related. It is called C# online.net, a portal similar like Wikipedia. A great initiative.

What do you say ?

Phoenix & Microsoft

This year Microsoft celebrating its 15th Anniversary of it's Research wing. One among the next 15 yrs goal is Phoenix.

The description about the new product from Microsoft goes like this,

Phoenix is the code name for a software optimization and analysis framework that is the basis for all future Microsoft compiler technologies

Isn't it curious to read about the information about the same?