The Synchronisation Trap

The original generation of PDAs, the ancestors of today’s mobile devices, were notably limited in their connectivity. They relied on...

Are Unit Tests Overused?

Unit Testing has come to dominate the many types of test that are used in developing applications. This has inevitably...

ANTS Performance Profiler 6 Early Access

The Early Access Program for ANTS Performance Profiler 6 has begun. You can get the new version from the EAP...

Object Overhead: The Hidden .NET Memory Allocation Cost

When developing a .NET application, one of the least visible sources of memory consumption is the overhead required by an...

Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET

Once you understand how .NET's garbage collector works, then the reasons for some of the more mysterious problems that can...

Commentary

I write a lot of comments in my code: these days it’s second nature. Every declaration I write has a...

When to Run and When to Block

When you are developing a multi-threaded application, you will need to understand how the operating system decides which threads are...

The Dangers of the Large Object Heap

You'd have thought that memory leaks were a thing of the past now that we use .NET. True, but we...