Module 1 High Points – Side by Side Implications
I’m really excited about my new “What’s New in .NET 4.5” course on Pluralsight. There’s more information in the course than I could stuff into my blog in a year, but I want to cover a few high points...
View ArticleModule 2 High Points: Portable Class Libraries
I’m continuing to channel how excited I am about my Pluralsight course “What’s New in .NET 4.5” into a series of blog posts with the most important thing(s) in each module. Sure, I won’t mind if these...
View ArticleEventSource: A New Way to Trace
Module 3 Highlights This is the next installment in my series of high points in .NET 4.5, which parallels my Pluralsight course “What’s New in .NET 4.5”. I think the course offers important insight and...
View ArticleAnother Look at Event Source Performance
EDIT: Added/changed things in the section near the end on Optimization #4 on 2013-11-06 In this post, Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi talks about high volume ETW performance and the following three...
View Article.NET 4.5.1 and Security Updates
I’d just like to add a quick little opinion piece on this very important announcement from the .NET framework team. On Oct 16, 2013, the team announced that NuGet would be a release mechanism for the...
View ArticleHow are Event Parameters Best Used to Create an Intuitive Custom...
Jason asked a really, really good question on StackOverflow. I’m answering it here, because it’s a wordy answer. The good news, is the answer is also in my about-to-be-released ETW Pluralsight video on...
View ArticleDid No One Count?
This is embarrassing, although I can explain, really officer. I wasn’t drinking, it just looked that way. I put up a Five Levels of Code Generation and it contained these bullet points: Altering code...
View ArticleWhat does Blazingly Fast Tracing Mean
I wrote a summary of ETW here and some basics here. I’ll be posting more to coincide with my new Pluralsight course on ETW tracing. ETW tracing is blazingly fast. The operating system tosses the trace...
View ArticleMultiple Versions of EventSource and One Version of SLAB
There are several versions of EventSource. .NET 4.5 has the initial version, which is improved in .NET 4.5.1. You want to use the 4.5.1 version if you possibly can. The diagnostics, in particular are...
View ArticleSemantic Tracing
I talk about semantic tracing in my Pluralsight course Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) in .NET. Here’s a summary. The Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB) documentation discusses semantic...
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