Stephen Toub .NET Matters: Stream Pipeline This month Stephen Toub explains how to make the most of dual processors when running encryption and compression tasks. Stephen Toub - February 2008 .NET Matters: IFileOperation in Windows Vista The author creates a managed wrapper to use the new IFileOperations interface in Windows Vista from managed code. Stephen Toub - December 2007 .NET Matters: Debugging finalizers 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. Stephen Toub - November 2007 .NET Matters: Deadlock monitor This month Stephen Toub discusses deadlocks that can occur when synchronizing threads. Stephen Toub - October 2007 .NET Matters: Tales from the CryptoRandom Stephen Toub and Shawn Farkas discuss creating an adapter that takes the functionality of RNGCryptoServiceProvider and adapts it to the interface of Random. Stephen Toub and Shawn Farkas - September 2007 Editor's Note: Thanks for the Memories! Stephen Toub gets nostalgic as he prepares to leave MSDN Magazine. Stephen Toub - August 2007 .NET Matters: Handling Messages in Console Apps 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. Stephen Toub - June 2007 .NET Matters: Restart Manager and Generic Method Compilation This month Stephen Toub answers questions pertaining to the Windows Vista Restart Manager API and generic method compilation. Stephen Toub - April 2007 Vista and Office: View Data Your Way With Our Managed Preview Handler Framework Stephen Toub shows you how to write your own Preview handlers for Windows Vista and Outlook 2007. Stephen Toub - January 2007 .NET Matters: Deserialization Progress, and More Build a standard progress bar that indicates how much deserialization has completed and how much still remains. Plus, System.Collection.Generics performance. Stephen Toub - December 2006 .NET Matters: Event Accessors Creating events on classes by adding the event keyword to a delegate member variable declaration. Stephen Toub - November 2006 .NET Matters: Scope<T> and More This month Stephen Toub explains how you can get some of the functionality found in the TransactionScope class in your own classes. Stephen Toub - September 2006 .NET Matters: Parameterized ThreadStart, EventWaitHandle, and More 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? Stephen Toub - June 2006 Bug Bash: Let The CLR Find Bugs For You With Managed Debugging Assistants Managed Debugging Assistants are new to the .NET Framework 2.0 and help you to discover serious bugs quickly. Learn how to harness their power. Stephen Toub - May 2006 .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 High Availability: Keep Your Code Running with the Reliability Features of the .NET Framework Reliability requires the capacity to execute a sequence of operations in a deterministic way, even under exceptional conditions. This allows you to ensure that resources are not leaked and that you can maintain state consistency without relying on application domain unloading (or worse, process restarts) to fix any corrupted state. Unfortunately, in the.NET Framework, not all exceptions are deterministic and synchronous, which makes it difficult to write code that is always deterministic in its ability to execute a predetermined sequence of operations. In this article Stephen Toub will show you why, and explore features of the .NET Framework 2.0 that help you to mitigate these situations and write more reliable code. Stephen Toub - October 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 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® . Stephen Toub - May 2005 .NET Matters: ICustomTypeDescriptor, Part 1 Stephen Toub - April 2005 { End Bracket }: Creating a Custom Metrics Tool Metrics play an important role in our lives. Even if we don't realize it or characterize it as such, many daily activities have the potential to be quantified to some degree. So it's not surprising that metrics play an even greater role in the workplace, where there are goals and a bottom line and where much of a day's activity can be summarized in numbers. 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 In this fourth installment of . NET Matters, I'm taking a breather from the Q&amp;A format. Instead, this month I bring you stories from the trenches; developers in product groups within Microsoft describe how they use . Edited by Stephen Toub - July 2004 .NET Matters: XML Comments, Late-bound COM, and More Stephen Toub - June 2004 C++: Write Faster Code with the Modern Language Features of Visual C++ 2005 The next version of Visual C++ has a new syntax that is both elegant and powerful. It has new optimization technology that has improved the speed of Microsoft. It has new compilation modes that ensure Common Language Infrastructure compliance and verifiability for the .NET Framework, and it has new models for interop. In this article Stephen Toub explains these and other improvements to Visual C++. Stephen Toub - May 2004 .NET Matters: Finalizers, Assembly Names, MethodInfo, and More Stephen Toub - May 2004 .NET Matters: Const in C#, Exception Filters, IWin32Window, and More 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. Stephen Toub - April 2004 .NET Remoting: Secure Your .NET Remoting Traffic by Writing an Asymmetric Encryption Channel Sink As .NET Remoting gains popularity in the enterprise space, it must meet business demands for trustworthy computing. Remoting traffic can be secured when objects are hosted in IIS, but when they aren't hosted in IIS, custom security solutions can be developed to secure them. This article provides an in-depth look at writing channel sinks for .NET. It also details the flow of data through custom channel sinks and explains the kinds of manipulations that can be performed on that data. Stephen Toub - June 2003 .NET Matters: Asynchronous Stream Processing This month Stephen Toub discusses asynchronous stream processing. Stephen Toub - March 2008 .NET Matters: Asynchronous I/O with WebClient In this month’s installment of .NET Matters, columnist Stephen Toub answers reader questions concerning asynchronous I/O . Stephen Toub - July 2008 Net Matters: Round-Robin Access To The ThreadPool Stephen Toub shows you how to add round-robin scheduling support on top of the ThreadPool for more granular processing control. Stephen Toub - January 2009 Coding Tools: Improved Support For Parallelism In The Next Version Of Visual Studio We take a look at planned support for parallel programming for both managed and native code in the next version of Visual Studio. Stephen Toub and Hazim Shafi - October 2008 .NET Matters: False Sharing This month: memory access issues in multi-core systems and diagnosing and avoiding false sharing in your parallel computing applications. Stephen Toub, Igor Ostrovsky, and Huseyin Yildiz - October 2008 .NET Matters: Parallelizing Operations With Dependencies 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 Toub - April 2009 .NET Matters: Ordered Execution With ThreadPool This month we demonstrate how you can use the ThreadPool to support ordered execution without having to build custom thread pools yourself. Stephen Toub - February 2009 .NET Matters: Aggregating Exceptions 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 Toub - August 2009 Parallel Debugging: Debugging Task-Based Parallel Applications in Visual Studio 2010 In Visual C++ 10 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft is introducing new libraries and runtimes to significantly ease the process of expressing parallelism in your code base, together with new tool support for performance analysis and debugging of parallel applications. In this article, you will learn about debugging support in Visual Studio 2010, much of which is focused on task-based programming models. Stephen Toub, Daniel Moth - September 2009 2009