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Brian Gideon

St Louis, MO

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-gideon/4/671/a85

I am a software engineer working for a company that specializes in industrial automation. My passion and language of choice is C# and I have focused much of my career on developing applications centered around the .NET Framework which I have used since 2001.

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Does a System.Timers.Timer elapse on a separate thread?
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SQLite - How do you join tables from different databases?
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Semaphore - What is the use of initial count?
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Returning a value from thread?
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119
Are .Net switch statements hashed or indexed?
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116
Question about terminating a thread cleanly in .NET
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Is it possible to "await yield return DoSomethingAsync()"
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Why we need Thread.MemoryBarrier()?
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58
What best practices for cleaning up event handler references?
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Does Console.WriteLine block?
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What is the correct way to free memory in C#
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c# Threadpool - limit number of threads
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44
How free memory used by a large list in C#?
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42
What are VSSVER.SCC files, and can I delete them?
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41
Memory barrier generators
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40
Thread.VolatileRead() vs Volatile.Read()
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40
Is there any difference between an AutoResetEvent and a Semaphore with maximumCount = 1?
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37
Memory Barrier by lock statement
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35
How do I update the GUI from another thread?
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35
How long is a single spin in ManualResetEventSlim
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33
Why do I need a memory barrier?
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33
What is the use of IClonable interface in .NET?
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33
Make a linked list thread safe
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32
Creating a c# windows service to poll a database
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31
How to update UI from another thread running in another class
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30
How to lock a variable used in multiple threads
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29
Are there any benefits to using a C# method group if available?
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Are C# delegates thread-safe?
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When is ReaderWriterLockSlim better than a simple lock?
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ConcurrentDictionary Pitfall - Are delegates factories from GetOrAdd and AddOrUpdate synchronized?
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