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I love Reflector.  Nothing beats reading the source code of a closed library that you're having issues with to determine what is the cause.  Or reading the .NET framework to better understand what is going on. I had the issue this evening of helping my dad with a .NET app that would crash on importing a file.  I opened the app in ...

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Decided to get NDepend dealt with.  I've been fortunate in that I've had a professional license but time has been of short supply in the last few months to be playing with something as cool and as big as NDepend.  So here starts a series of posts on NDepend.  My code base of choice is the Subtext blogging platform that I'm a ...

In a medium sized project I'm working on at the moment, we've had a rather large memory leak issue.  We've implemented our tiers in a pattern called MVVM. I wasn't sure on how well this would work but to be honest, its been an amazing pattern to follow and pretty easy to get right. Our UI exclusively does binding, I.e. there is no real code ...

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Coding for parallelism is never easy.  Keeping track of threads, synchronisation issues and locking is incredibly hard.  We've all had code where instantly we can see that running it in parallel would significantly improve the speed.  But the overhead of making sure everything runs properly without any issues normally keeps us ...