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.NET Matters: Tales from the CryptoRandom
Stephen Toub and Shawn Farkas - September 2007
Stephen Toub and Shawn Farkas discuss creating an adapter that takes the functionality of RNGCryptoServiceProvider and adapts it to the interface of Random..NET Matters: Handling Messages in Console Apps
Stephen Toub - June 2007
Many developers who use the Microsoft .NET Framework think that application type is tied to the libraries that can be used in that application. Stephen Toub clarifies..NET Matters: Restart Manager and Generic Method Compilation
Stephen Toub - April 2007
This month Stephen Toub answers questions pertaining to the Windows Vista Restart Manager API and generic method compilation..NET Matters: Deserialization Progress, and More
Stephen Toub - December 2006
Build a standard progress bar that indicates how much deserialization has completed and how much still remains. Plus, System.Collection.Generics performance..NET Matters: Event Accessors
Stephen Toub - November 2006
Creating events on classes by adding the event keyword to a delegate member variable declaration..NET Matters: Scope<T> and More
Stephen Toub - September 2006
This month Stephen Toub explains how you can get some of the functionality found in the TransactionScope class in your own classes..NET Matters: Parameterized ThreadStart, EventWaitHandle, and More
Stephen Toub - June 2006
This month Stephen Toub answers readers questions that include: How do I pass data to a new thread? Why can't I convert from "ref string" to "ref object"? And what's the difference between EventWaitHandle, AutoResetEvent and ManualResetEvent?.NET Matters: Abortable Thread Pool
Stephen Toub - March 2006.NET Matters: Iterating NTFS Streams
Stephen Toub - January 2006.NET Matters: BigInteger, GetFiles, and More
Stephen Toub - December 2005.NET Matters: NamedGZipStream, Covariance and Contravariance
Stephen Toub - October 2005.NET Matters: Stream Decorator, Single-Instance Apps
Stephen Toub - September 2005.NET Matters: StringStream, Methods with Timeouts
Stephen Toub - July 2005.NET Matters: ICustomTypeDescriptor, Part 2
Stephen Toub - May 2005
In last month's . NET Matters column, I answered a question concerning the PropertyGrid control, specifically about using it with classes that expose fields instead of properties. I demonstrated how the ICustomTypeDescriptor interface in the Microsoft® ..NET Matters: ICustomTypeDescriptor, Part 1
Stephen Toub - April 2005.NET Matters: File Copy Progress, Custom Thread Pools
Stephen Toub - February 2005.NET Matters: Sepia Tone, StringLogicalComparer, and More
Stephen Toub - January 2005.NET Matters: Asynchronous HttpWebRequests, Interface Implementation, and More
Stephen Toub - December 2004.NET Matters: ThreadPoolPriority, and MethodImplAttribute
Stephen Toub - November 2004.NET Matters: ThreadPoolWait and HandleLeakTracker
Stephen Toub - October 2004.NET Matters: Debugger Visualizations, Garbage Collection
Stephen Toub - August 2004.NET Matters: How Microsoft Uses Reflection
Edited by Stephen Toub - July 2004
In this fourth installment of . NET Matters, I'm taking a breather from the Q&A format. Instead, this month I bring you stories from the trenches; developers in product groups within Microsoft describe how they use ..NET Matters: XML Comments, Late-bound COM, and More
Stephen Toub - June 2004.NET Matters: Finalizers, Assembly Names, MethodInfo, and More
Stephen Toub - May 2004.NET Matters: Const in C#, Exception Filters, IWin32Window, and More
Stephen Toub - April 2004
Welcome to . NET Matters. This new column will delve into the ins and outs of the Microsoft® . NET Framework, answering readers' questions on various topics related to its extensive libraries, languages, and the common language runtime..NET Matters: IFileOperation in Windows Vista
Stephen Toub - December 2007
The author creates a managed wrapper to use the new IFileOperations interface in Windows Vista from managed code..NET Matters: Stream Pipeline
Stephen Toub - February 2008
This month Stephen Toub explains how to make the most of dual processors when running encryption and compression tasks..NET Matters: Asynchronous Stream Processing
Stephen Toub - March 2008
This month Stephen Toub discusses asynchronous stream processing..NET Matters: Debugging finalizers
Stephen Toub - November 2007
Find out how to use finalizers as a way to warn developers who use your custom types when they are garbage collected without having been disposed of correctly..NET Matters: Deadlock monitor
Stephen Toub - October 2007
This month Stephen Toub discusses deadlocks that can occur when synchronizing threads.