May 2008 - Ray Houston

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Do Anonymous Methods Prevent Declaring Types from Being GC'd?

It seems that they do if they reference members of the declaring type. This makes perfect sense now that I think about it, but I didn't think about it earlier and wrote some code that caused a memory leak. I had an object acting as a singleton and...

Published Wed, May 21 2008 9:57 PM by Ray Houston
Synchronizing UI Operations with Asynchronous Dependencies

When working with asynchronous data access such as using a Silverlight client to access data from a server side service, you will inevitably run into the situation where you have two or more calls which have results that need to be processed in a synchronous...

Published Wed, May 14 2008 10:14 PM by Ray Houston
Connecting ActiveRecord to SQL Server

Disclaimer: I'm a Ruby noobie. I know nada about Rails. Please leave a comment if something is not correct or if there is a better way to do this. At work, we're using Watir to drive a Silverlight application for some automated end to end testing...

Published Sat, May 03 2008 11:13 AM by Ray Houston