My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Microsoft Interface Definition Language 3

October 15, 2018
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I wrote about Windows RT some years ago without really thinking about the underlying type system design in a multi ...

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Why is the CPU usage so high and why do requests appear stuck?

October 04, 2018
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I was reviewing a hang dump for really important service with WinDbg recently, externally it was obvious that our ...

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Hosting your ASP.NET Core app

September 14, 2018
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So I wanted to document a couple of interesting points that had not occurred to me about hosting ASP.NET Core ...

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Should we use SecureString in ASP.NET for handling passwords?

August 28, 2018
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I got asked an interesting question about that would potentially apply to lots of products and thought it would be an ...

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Taking a Hang Dump or Crash Dump with ProcDump

August 09, 2018
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Most of us are unprepared for catastrophic failure in our application, that is, the kind of failure that is so ...

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Casting to Xbox from Windows

July 23, 2018
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Much to my disappointment PBS does not have a Xbox One app and they have a lot of British programming that I would miss ...

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What you need to know about .NET memory

July 13, 2018
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I have been tasked with sharing some of things I have learned about .NET applications and how they manage memory and ...

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Reversing the effects of long programming sessions

July 10, 2018
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Programming for long periods is like walking a high tight rope for a really, really long period of time, or at least I ...

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Reviewing GitHub Pull Requests in Visual Studio

July 05, 2018
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I have suggested to all my software engineering colleagues that a lack of git command line experience does not have to ...

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