How to Fix Startup Times in Windows 7

Sandro Villinger wrote an excellent article on speeding up boot-times, most of these articles do not go further than msconfig.exe, this article does. Windows 7 is a fast beast, especially when it comes to its startup process which was optimized dramatically compared to Windows Vista. No wonder, as Microsoft has a dedicated team focusing strictly […]

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Stack & Heap (Storage of Value Types and Reference Types)

As i have informed in my previous article, In an IT Services compnay interviewer has asked me about the Difference between value types  and reference types in .NET. I have conveyed that Value Types are stored in “Stack” (Datastructure for Memory Management Technique) and Reference Types are stored in “Heap”. He immediately asked me why […]

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Expression Blend 4 SDK for .NET 4 & Silverlight

Microsoft Expression Blend 4 includes new built-in behaviors, which are reusable pieces of packaged code that can be dragged onto any object, and then fine-tuned by changing their properties. Behaviors allow you to add interactivity to your applications without having to write any code. The Behavior API consists of three core classes: Trigger, Action and […]

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WCF Basics Quick Overview

Windows Communication Foundation  is unified programming API, takes many existing communication technologies, such as Web Services, Windows Remoting, Microsoft Message Queuing, and abstracts them into a single technology.  In most cases, this simplifies the way you communicate with other applications.  It also allows you to communicate with other applications without being coupled to a specific […]

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WCF Binding Comparison

I have been through different articles to find a comparison table about WCF Bindings. I just came across this comparison table by Aaron Skonnard.  I hope this would be a good reference comparison table. Quoting to Aaron Skonnard’s  Blog in Plural Sight(original source), In my ongoing quest to produce the simplest table possible summarizing the […]

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