Cool Programming

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server due in March

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:41:53 GMT

Darryl K. Taft: A Microsoft executive Jan. 30 said the Team Foundation Server component of Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System will ship in March.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1916715,00.asp

ConcealMemoryUsage

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:48:42 GMT

Tired of explaining why you .NET application is consuming so much virtual memory? Just call this function every 5 minutes. Your application will be less efficient, but the Task Manager boobs will stop complaining.

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError=true)]
public static extern int SetProcessWorkingSetSize ( IntPtr hProcess, int dwMinimumWorkingSetSize, int dwMaximumWorkingSetSize);
/// <summary>
/// Tells Windows to page unused parts of this process's heap into VM. This gives the user the perception that the program is using less memory
/// (As reported by the taskmanager)
/// The drawback is that calling this may degrade performance, especially if it's called when the app is not idle (busy processing things)
/// </summary>
public static void ConcealMemoryUsage()
{
Util.SetProcessWorkingSetSize( System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().Handle, -1, -1 );
}

Google Web Accelerator

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:17:21 GMT

I just noticed that Google Web Accelerator is back. It only prefetches HTTP GET requests that don't have query parameters.

http://webaccelerator.google.com/

cross-posted

Google Toolbar Spell Check API

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:38:33 GMT

Paul Welter: So, I spend an afternoon reverse engineering the spell checker api. The api ends up to be very easy to use. I created a complete C# GoogleSpell library as a demo. The library can be download at http://www.loresoft.com/downloads/googlespell.zip.

http://weblogs.asp.net/pwelter34/archive/2005/07/19/419838.aspx

Blackcomb is now Vienna

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:05:45 GMT

Mary Jo Foley: Code name junkies, update your trackers. The next major version of Windows client set to follow Windows Vista is no longer known as "Blackcomb." The new name is "Vienna," Microsoft officials have confirmed. Tech evangelist Robert Scoble let the Vienna cat out of the bag over on Channel 9.

WindowsCommunication.net launches!

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:57:03 GMT

About: Check out the Windows Communication Foundation community site, where you’ll find everything you need to start building services today. The site includes hands-on labs, whitepapers, videos from team members, sessions from recent conferences, and even a whirlwind tour through the product group. Best of all, you can download samples contributed by members of the WCF community, and show off your own samples by sharing them with the community.

http://windowscommunication.net/

Petzold meets Sells and Box

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:08:55 GMT

http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/17092.aspx