As I’ve mentioned in my previous post, the biggest problem with using the .Net ThreadPool is that there’s a limited number of threads in the pool and you’ll be sharing with other .Net framework classes so you need to be on your best behaviour and not hog the thread pool with long running or blocking …
There are a lot of discussions on the pros and cons of using the ThreadPool and creating your own threads. Having spent a bit of time reading what others have to say, here’s a summary of the things I’ve picked up on. The problem with creating your own threads Creating and destroying threads has a …
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I found a nice usage of AOP the other day, using AOP to keep track of how long your method takes to execute and log a warning message if it takes longer than a threshold you supply. You can configure it to log execution times or only flag warning entries when threshold’s been exceeded.
Having run into a bit of deadlocking issue while working on Bingo.Net I spent a bit of time reading into the Producer-Consumer pattern and here’s what I learnt which I hope you’ll find useful too. AutoResetEvent and ManualResetEvent To start off, MSDN has an introductory article on how to synchronize a producer and a consumer …
Ever wondered when you should use Monitor.Pulse and when you should use Monitor.PulseAll given that only one thread will be able to acquire the lock even if you wake up multiple threads? I did, and that’s when I stumbled across a similar question on StackOverflow and as ever, Jon Skeet came up with a really …
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Whilst working on Bingo.Net I have come across a number of concurrency issues which must be fairly common in synchronous multiplayer games. During my attempts to overcome these obstacles I came across the volatile modifier in C# which at first glance looked like a silverbullet for all concurrency problems, but under closer inspection it more …
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Ever needed to get your hands on a new Guid without having to start up a new project and all of that? Well, there are two easy ways to go about it: 1. use LinqPad LinqPad is a FREE code snippet editor for C#, developed by Joe Albahari (one of the authors of the C# …
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When debugging your application, don’t you just get annoyed that pressing F11 keep taking you into the get method of the properties (auto-properties excluded!) passed into the method rather than the method you want to step into? I use auto-properties wherever possible because they’re syntactically cleaner and have less maintenance overhead, and I have the …
There’s a little known attribute which was introduced in the .Net framework 2.0 called configSource, which allows you to externalize sections of the configuration file. It works just like the optional file attribute found on the appSettings element: <appSettings file = “relative file name” /> but can be added to any configuration section to specify …
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In my Learning F# posts you probably saw how you can generate an int array like this: this returns 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. This is pretty cool, and fortunately, you have something very similarly in C# with Enumerable.Range which you can use by supplying a starting number and a …
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