Nicholas Butler .NET

Articles by Nicholas Butler

• Concurrent Programming
  • Async Progress : The Progress Reporting Pattern in C# 5 async.
  • False Sharing : Concurrency hazards: False sharing and how to detect and avoid it.
  • Petri Dish : Multithreading for performance in C#.
  • Ready Queue : Is the Ready Queue FIFO? The Truth and the Proof.
  • Superlinear : Making more of your cores.
  • Thread Local Storage : An excercise in concurrent programming.
  • Wait Pulse : Thread synchronization: Wait and Pulse demystified.
• Code Project Utilities
  • Article Ratings : An application to keep track of your article ratings over time.
  • Bob Builder : A Code Project article editor with live preview.
• Windows Forms
  • Busy Bar : The only progress bar you will ever need.
  • Easi Reports : A library to add reports to your application.
  • Wait Cursor : A Wait Cursor implementation using the using keyword.
  • WebBrowserEx : WinForms WebBrowser + HTTP Server.
• Data Structures
  • Tree Collection 1 : An implementation of a tree collection in C#.
  • Tree Collection 2 : An implementation of a tree collection using generics.
• Algorithms
  • Myers' Diff Algorithm Part 1 : The basic greedy algorithm.
  • Myers' Diff Algorithm Part 2 : The linear space refinement.
• General
  • Check Help Links : A tool to check links across merged help ( CHM ) files.
  • FreeCell Discombobulator : Take control of FreeCell.
  • Hard Links : A tool for managing NTFS hard links.
  • OS Version : Easily find and compare OS version information.
  • Print Controller File : Output graphics files using your printing code.
  • Soap Size Extension : Find the size of the SOAP messages in your web service.
  • Strong Names : Reflection without the magic strings.
  • Taskbar Sorter : A tool to order the window buttons in your taskbar.