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There has been much debate in the Mackie forums over the performance of Vista's new audio layer. I for one, couldn't see them going backwards from the horrid XP audio layer, but some people just can't be convinced. That is until now. This is a fairly Read More

This is more of a bookmark for myself than anything, but it's an item from MSDN on WPF performance. I've now officially got more W*F books than I've writen W*F code so I think it's time to stop buying books and start doing something... :) Read More

I have to come clean. For a long time, I've been a one-exit kind of guy. It stems from my earlier programming years and came from the desire to reduce spaghetti style coding. I used to enjoy being able to pick the point in time a routine exited, as I Read More

I have just spent two days chasing down a production bug that didn't occur in the development environment. When I had given up and decided to pepper the source with logging and put in a few judicious empty Try/Catch blocks I finally stumbled across the error. AND IT WASN'T ME!!! Sort of. Read More

I have pretty much finished with the project from hell. I hope to never have to go through what I've just been through again in my life. Neither does my wife. She's basically threatened to walk out on me if it looks like happening again. Anway... Read More