Programming – Developer's Columns

Really Unmanaged?

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:45:39 +0000

Ever since managed environments such as JVM and .Net CLR gained widespread popularity, they pushed the traditional native programming aside as Unmanaged – as in chaos. While antonym of managed can indeed be unmanaged, the term doesn’t seem a fit description to the mighty performing native environment. I prefer to call it Self Managed. and …

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Size of an Empty Struct?

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:05:31 +0000

Probably one of the basic questions… And answer is present in all the basic books. But a recent discussions motivated me to investigate a bit. Here we will look at the size of an empty struct in context to c and c++

Linq2Sql Or Entity Framework?

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:04:11 +0000

On the first look Entity Framework looks so much similar to Linq2Sql that its natural to question if we really need another framework? The question seem to be both puzzling and relevant at the same time as Linq2Sql seem to be more simpler and more matured. With two competing technology the question is which one to incorporate in the next project. Here we try to answer this question.

Asp.Net Http Handlers (Part 1)

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:49:37 +0000

The Article discusses the need and implementation of an .NET HTTP Handler. In this episode we create an ImageGenerator Handler and deploy it for an asp.net website. The article covers creation and deployment in detail.

ACL Security Configuration for WCF

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:03:07 +0000

Picture this: You are demonstrating a sample. You have done the same thing earlier. It always worked. And then it failed with a cryptic exception you never saw before. Unhandled Exception: System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException: HTTP could not register URL http://+:2222/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace This is exactly what hit me …

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Pointers – Vows and Concerns

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:01:10 +0000

One great feature managed environments such as java and .net claim is the role and use of garbage collector. In this article we will be looking and the main pointer vows of C/C++ which acted as motivation for evolution of managed environment and garbage collection. In this section we will talk about Wild Pointer Dangling …

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C – A Brief History

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:34:20 +0000

C is quirky, flawed and an enormously success – Dennis Ritchie

The story of the success of C is often told and retold. C is deemed as the mother of all modern programming languages since almost all surviving modern programming language finds it origin or resemblance with this language. However there are two points that must be interesting to note about this very high profile mother of modern programming languages –First, the story of C begins, interestingly, with a failure.