.NET Tip: Creating a Thread-Safe Singleton
The singleton pattern can be used in a wide variety of situations. This tip will show you how to create a thread-safe version of a singleton.
The singleton pattern can be used in a wide variety of situations. This tip will show you how to create a thread-safe version of a singleton.
Having trouble using the asynchronous call mechanisms built into .NET? Let Kenn Scribner clarify it for you and make your programming tasks (at least as related to asynchronous processing) a little easier.
Three-dimensional primitive shapes are conspicuously absent from the .NET Framework and GDI+, but that didn't stop Paul Kimmel from implementing a 3D cube primitive. Read all about his results.
Make a task that happens in a GUI spawn-off and runs in a seperate thread so that the GUI doesn't effectively "die" when a long-running task is executing.