#115 – August 14, 2016
.NET thread-pool threads and CLR worker threads
How many threads are available in .NET thread pool? How long does the CLR take to create a new Non-thread-pool thread? How long does the CLR take to schedule a task on a thread-pool thread? How long does the CLR take to create a new thread-pool thread when it does not have enough thread available in the pool?
Avalonia is a cross platform .NET UI framework inspired by WPF, with XAML, data binding, lookless controls and much more. Avalonia is the only way to bring XAML-based applications to Windows, Mac and Linux (and we have experimental mobile support too!).
How to Use React with Visual Studio and ASP.NET Web API
How to structure a Visual Studio solution that uses React for the front-end and ASP.NET Web API for the back-end. How to use webpack and npm together with Visual Studio. How to easily make your applications realtime with Pusher.
Digging into the CoreCLR: JIT Introduction
The .Net Just-In-Time compiler (or JIT for short) is one of those marvels you don't even realize is there, unless you have to smooth talk it to do your bidding.
C# Networking/UDP File Transfer
UDP is very different from TCP. We have to work with datagrams instead of streams & connections. It can be very fast (and unreliable), but there are many things that we have to do ourselves. Trying to think of a good (and interesting example), I decided upon building a simple file transfer application (over UDP) would be a nice place to start.