Net Matters: Round-Robin Access To The ThreadPool

Building an NHibernate-based desktop application isn't any harder than building a web application, and in many cases NHibernate simplifies elements of session handling and concurrency.Oren EiniMSDN Magazine December 2009

Developers deploy a wide variety of development philosophies and architecture styles. This article explores three common perspectives on application development and describes how the Entity Framework can be employed in each. Specifically, the article looks at the forms-centric, model-centric, and code-centric development styles and their relationship to the Entity Framework.Tim MallalieuMSDN Magazine August 2009

In this article, the author delves into some commonly used ways of writing data access code and looks at the effect they can have on performance.Bob BeaucheminMSDN Magazine August 2009

Exceptions in .NET are the fundamental mechanism by which errors and other exceptional conditions are communicated. This month's column provides information about how to aggregate exceptions to help manage a variety of scenarios in which multiple exceptions might result from one operation, including scenarios involving parallelism and concurrency.Stephen ToubMSDN Magazine August 2009

In this article the author looks at two versions of the same application--one consuming an on-premise Data Service, and one consuming an Azure Table Data Service to illustrate data access in the cloud.Elisa FlaskoMSDN Magazine May 2009

In this month's installment, Stephen Toub examines some techniques for enforcing dependencies in the running order of asynchronous operations and builds a DependencyManagement class to help.Stephen ToubMSDN Magazine April 2009

This month we demonstrate how you can use the ThreadPool to support ordered execution without having to build custom thread pools yourself.Stephen ToubMSDN Magazine February 2009

Building a data access layer using LINQ to SQL and the ADO.NET Entity Framework allows you to decouple your application from the persistence technology you're using.Anthony SneedMSDN Magazine December 2008

Understanding the ACLs that govern permissions and rights before an operation is allowed to proceed is critical to enhancing security.John R. MichenerMSDN Magazine November 2008

Download Visual Round-trip Analyzer (VRTA) to uncover the root of your Web page loading problems and identify these 12 common ailments.Jim PiersonMSDN Magazine November 2008