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I have given a surface to my daughter. A lot of my friends/family ask me how I like using Surface...

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It’s common for people to think that NGEN works with strong named assemblies only and it places...

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I am planning to write couple of NGEN/GAC related posts. I thought I’d share out some introductory...

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In the past I worked on a application which used modules from different teams. Many of these modules...

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In early 2008 I joined the CLR team to clean garbage (or to write Garbage Collectors :)). It has...

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Right now I am helping out a team with an assembly resolution conflict bug. I thought I’d share the...

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I am sure everyone by now knows that Google Reader is being shutdown. I am a heavy user of Google...

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I had very limited idea about how mixed mode programming on .NET works. In mixed mode the binary can...

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Long time back at the wake of the release of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) I posted about the Windows Phone...

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These days everyone is talking about being agile and test driven development (TDD). I wanted to...

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For some time now, my main box got a bit slow and was glitching all the time. After some...

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A reader contacted me over this blog to inquire about the overhead of managed objects on the Windows...

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Like many engineer I am partially fueled by the engineers angst. I am not always able to vent it in...

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Fast Application Switch of FAS is kind of tricky for application developers to handle. There are a...

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In my previous post “Mark-Sweep collection and how does a Generational GC help” I discussed how a...

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GPS One of the most requested feature for the emulator was support for sensor. Developers...

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This is an announcement only post, do subscribe to this blog feed or on to...

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This is an announcement only post, do subscribe to this blog feed or on to...

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Consider the following code that I received: static void Foo() { TestClass t = new...

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If you are looking for information on the new Generational GC on Windows Phone Mango please visit...

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Learn from the dev lead and PM of Windows Phone 7 Emulator on how it works and delivers the awesome...

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In Building NETCF for Windows Phone 7 series we put in couple of features to enhance startup...

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If you are following the latest Windows Phone stories than you have surely heard about the .NET...

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In the comments of my previous post Windows Phone 7 Series Programming Model and elsewhere (e.g....

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Today at MIX 2010 we announced Silverlight beta for Nokia S60 phones. Go download the beta from...

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Just sometime back I posted on the MIX 2010 announcements. One of the major aspects of the...

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Someone contacted me over my blog about his managed application where the working set goes on...

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I am sure most people haven’t yet forgotten the Y2K problem. This year our team faced a mini Y2K,...

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