Jaimal Chohan

Archive for May 2008

The GAC

Posted by: jaimalchohan on: May 15, 2008

The GAC
Way back as part of .NET 1.1, Microsoft introduced a feature called the Global Assembly Cache, or GAC. The GAC is a virtual folder which holds references to assemblies on the hard disk.
You can view assemblies in the GAC by navigating to C:\Windows\Assembly (or whatever your root drive is) and what you should [...]

Asynchronous Programming Part 2 – Threading

Posted by: jaimalchohan on: May 13, 2008

Threading
If you don’t know what a process is, click Crtl + Shift + Esc to bring up the task manager, click on the processes tab and you’ll see all the processes running on your PC (You might need to uncheck “Show processes from all users” to see all of the processes).
A process is a programs [...]