Rajan's Blog

Dump the Stack Trace for a running Windows Process

rajanpatel — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:50:41 +0000

Ever wanted to dump the stack for all threads for a running Win32 process then follow this guide:

Getting Stack Traces of a Running .NET Process

This suggests using ntsd.exe – so to interpret results:

I can’t keep up – UI in the brave new world – PRISM

rajanpatel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:28:02 +0000

Ok I am getting information overload – looking into a new UI initiative and am coming across new terms – that I need to jot these down:

PRISM – the new name for the CAL or CAG development:

http://compositewpf.codeplex.com/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc785479.aspx

Code project and channel 9 articles to build a light weight framework using PRISM:

CodeProject PRISM part1
CodeProject PRISM part2
Calcium
Channel 9 articles

If developing a plugin architecture how do you stop the rotten egg crashing your whole app? Use MAF or MEF and hee is a good summary of the problem

And if you want to use Winforms on PRISM.

Finally the WPF Disciples community

How much memory does a process take up on a Windows machine

rajanpatel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:26:45 +0000

Wanted to know what the memory requirements are for a single process on windows machine – if you have 32gb machine a process will not use all of it – you need to look at the bios settings.

The virtual address space of processes and applications is still limited to 2 GB unless the /3GB switch is used in the Boot.ini file. When the physical RAM in the system exceeds 16 GB and the /3GB switch is used, the operating system will ignore the additional RAM until the /3GB switch is removed. This is because of the increased size of the kernel required to support more Page Table Entries. The assumption is made that the administrator would rather not lose the /3GB functionality silently and automatically; therefore, this requires the administrator to explicitly change this setting

There is no money left for Greenfield – do it the Brownfield way

rajanpatel — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:21:08 +0000

How many organisations out there have the remit to start new software projects? In today’s credit crunch world many software projects are put on hold but wait we can do something new with the old without realising it. Its called Brownfield Development.

Introducing new technology ideas to existing or legacy projects, breath new life into that team or just do things better. It takes it ideology from politics and the full definition is on Wikipedia.

Which Perfmon Counter Shall I Use?

rajanpatel — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:52:00 +0000

Ever wanted to know what to monitor when diagnosing issues with performance – here is a great article to track the most important counters you will need:

Top Ten Performance Counters

Fixing Visual Studio 2003 Debugging after installing Studio 2008

rajanpatel — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:45:44 +0000

You know the story you have to maintain an old project written in 2003 but you have already moved ahead and have installed 2008 – but you then install 2003 and your project in 2003 no longer builds – well its because 2008 breaks all old debugging configurations – to get 2003 to debug again follow these steps:

After the upgrade the debugger in Visual Studio 2003 will be broken. This is because the "Machine Debug Service" no longer starts. To fix:

Start a command prompt
Change directory to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7Debug
Run mdm.exe /unregserver
Run mdm.exe /regserver
Start the Machine Debug Service

Is My Cloud Worth It?

rajanpatel — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:17:08 +0000

We all know about Cloud Computing but what do we know about the economics of it. Well, when the Economist run an article on it you know it is worth a look….

Economist Cloud Computing Article

However I think they miss the point that the cloud does more than social computing in that it does provide a platform to develop applications on.

Father of Algo Trading Retires – James Simons

rajanpatel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:48:54 +0000

The father of Algo Trading decides to call it a day – fascinating man James Simons. To think what this man has achieved in last 3o years is amazing

Sasha Barber Does IT Again – Cinch MVVP Framework

rajanpatel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:27:54 +0000

I have followed the developments from this dude Sasha Barberfor a while now on CodeProject and his articles never cease to amaze me.

I am going to have a crack at using his new framework – Cinch – for a brief explanation – goto:
Cinch MVVP

UX Design Patterns – Get your User Experience Just Right

rajanpatel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:08:17 +0000

Alot of my work involves designing user interfaces. Upto now I have been a server side developer dabbling a little in the UI but you cannot just isolate yourself to server or gui. Nowadays the professional developer needs skills from front to back.

Whilst there have been formal patterns for a number of years which have helped the server side there has been little for User interface patterns. Perhaps they have already existed but now it has been spec’d out formally.

Two noteworthy sites are:

UXMatters

QUINCE – Infragisistics UX Design Patterns all the ways a UI should be developed.