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Windows App Outsourcing and Contract Development: What to Sort Out Before You Ask
Before commissioning Windows app outsourcing or contract development, here is how to sort out existing software modification, device integration, COM/ActiveX...
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Using Algebraic Data Types in .NET Framework / .NET — Designing States and Results with Types
How to use algebraic data types — especially sum types and discriminated unions — in .NET Framework and .NET, and what you gain: F#, C# class hierarchies, re...
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Handling Windows Impersonation Tokens Correctly — Borrowing Privileges per Thread and Reverting Safely
A practical guide to Windows impersonation tokens — access tokens, primary tokens, thread tokens, impersonation levels, RevertToSelf, and .NET's WindowsIdent...
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The Misconception That TCP Lets You Receive in the Same Units You Send — Designing Reception Around a Byte Stream
Assuming TCP delivers data in the same units as Send or Write leads to fragmentation, coalescing, garbled text, and broken protocols. This article lays out h...
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Telling GC Lag from a Memory Leak in .NET — A Practical Procedure for Observing, Comparing, and Proving Memory Growth
A procedure for determining whether growing memory in a .NET application is simply waiting on garbage collection or a genuine memory leak, using dotnet-count...
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How to Run PowerShell from C# (CSharp) and Receive the Results as Objects
How to launch PowerShell from C# and receive results as PSObject rather than strings — a practical walkthrough of the PowerShell SDK, AddCommand, AddParamete...
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Testing PowerShell with Pester — A Practical Approach to Making Operations Scripts Harder to Break
A practical walkthrough of testing PowerShell scripts with Pester v5 — safely covering date handling, file operations, deletion logic, mocking, and CI execut...
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Why Windows Became What It Is Today: The Evolution of Windows Through a Developer's Eyes
A look at the changes from Windows 95 to Windows 11 — not as a visual timeline, but from a Windows application developer's perspective: compatibility, stabil...
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A Windows App Developer's Primer on CPU Settings: Priority, Affinity, and P-cores/E-cores
For Windows app developers: how CPU priority, affinity, P-cores/E-cores, power-saving settings, and EcoQoS/Efficiency Mode relate, and how to think about mea...
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A Developer's Strange Love, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows
Windows is a hassle. But that hassle is the hassle of an OS that has carried real-world business on its back.