Simon Cooper

C# via Java: Arrays

The one primitive type that hasn’t been covered is the array. An array contains a fixed number of items, and...

03 January 2014 5 min read

Simon Cooper

C# via Java: Primitive types

So, what is a primitive type? According to the Incompleteness Theorem, there will always be things in any mathematical system,...

26 November 2013 8 min read

Simon Cooper

C# via Java: Introduction

So, I’ve recently changed jobs. Rather than working in .NET land, I’ve migrated over to Java land. But never fear!...

08 November 2013 2 min read

Simon Cooper

Why unhandled exceptions are useful

It’s the bane of most programmers’ lives – an unhandled exception causes your application or webapp to crash, an ugly...

03 June 2013 7 min read

Simon Cooper

.NET Security Part 4

Finally, in this series, I am going to cover some of the security issues that can trip you up when...

28 May 2013 5 min read

Simon Cooper

.NET Security Part 3

You write a security-related application that allows addins to be used. These addins (as dlls) can be downloaded from anywhere,...

16 May 2013 4 min read

Simon Cooper

.NET Security Part 2

So, how do you create partial-trust appdomains? Where do you come across them? There are two main situations in which...

07 May 2013 5 min read

Simon Cooper

Inside Portable Class Libraries

Portable Class Libraries were introduced with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 to aid writing libraries that could be used on many...

19 April 2013 6 min read

Simon Cooper

Subterranean IL: ThreadLocal revisited

Last year, I looked at the ThreadLocal type as it exists in .NET 4. In .NET 4.5, this type has...

18 April 2013 5 min read

Simon Cooper

Inside the DLR – Invoking methods

So, we’ve looked at how a dynamic call is represented in a compiled assembly, and how the dynamic lookup is...

20 August 2012 8 min read

Simon Cooper

Inside the DLR – Callsite binders

So, we’ve looked at how the C# compiler produces a CallSite object for every dynamic call that is made, and...

03 August 2012 4 min read

Simon Cooper

Inside the DLR – Callsites

The DLR was introduced in .NET 4 to allow dynamic languages, like Python or Ruby, to run on the CLR....

23 July 2012 4 min read

Simon Cooper

PostSharp, Obfuscation, and IL

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a relatively new programming paradigm. Originating at Xerox PARC in 1994, the paradigm was first made...

31 May 2012 6 min read

Simon Cooper

Inside Red Gate – Ricky Leeks

So, one of our profilers has a problem. Red Gate produces two .NET profilers – ANTS Performance Profiler (APP) and...

04 May 2012 3 min read

Simon Cooper

Subterranean IL: The ThreadLocal type

I came across ThreadLocal<T> while I was researching ConcurrentBag. To look at it, it doesn’t really make much sense. What’s...

03 May 2012 5 min read

Simon Cooper

Obfuscation is not a panacea

So, you want to obfuscate your .NET application. My question to you is: Why? What are your aims when your...

16 April 2012 4 min read

Simon Cooper

.NET vs Windows 8

So, day 1 of DevWeek. Lots and lots of Windows 8 and WinRT, as you would expect. The keynote had...

28 March 2012 4 min read

Simon Cooper

Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentBag

Unlike the other concurrent collections, ConcurrentBag does not really have a non-concurrent analogy. As stated in the MSDN documentation, ConcurrentBag...

26 March 2012 8 min read

Simon Cooper

DevWeek 2012

For those interested, myself and a few other people from Red Gate will be going to DevWeek 2012 in London...

26 March 2012 1 min read

Simon Cooper

Why you shouldn’t add methods to interfaces in APIs

It is an oft-repeated maxim that you shouldn’t add methods to a publically-released interface in an API. Recently, I was...

08 March 2012 3 min read

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Simon Cooper's content

C# via Java: Arrays

C# via Java: Primitive types

C# via Java: Introduction

Why unhandled exceptions are useful

.NET Security Part 4

.NET Security Part 3

.NET Security Part 2

Inside Portable Class Libraries

Subterranean IL: ThreadLocal revisited

Inside the DLR – Invoking methods

Inside the DLR – Callsite binders

Inside the DLR – Callsites

PostSharp, Obfuscation, and IL

Inside Red Gate – Ricky Leeks

Subterranean IL: The ThreadLocal type

Obfuscation is not a panacea

.NET vs Windows 8

Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentBag

DevWeek 2012

Why you shouldn’t add methods to interfaces in APIs