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This article describes a very short helper class to work with unmanaged memory that must be pinned to prevent the garbage collector from moving it. This is a particular requirement when working with the Win32 API's asynchronous I/O methods, which I found myself doing when implementing a USB device interface.

An article on improving the performance of an algorithm by replacing integer divisions

The twenty-ninth part of the C# Fundamentals tutorial starts a multi-part examination of the program flow control commands available to the C# developer. This first article examines the for loop structure that allow the repeated execution of code.

The twenty-third part of the C# Fundamentals tutorial continues the examination of the string manipulation functionality provided by the String class. This article investigates methods available for comparing the contents of strings.

The twenty-sixth part of the C# Fundamentals tutorial continues the examination of the DateTime data type provided by C# and the .NET Framework. In this instalment we will consider how information can be compared and extracted from values of this type.

The twenty-seventh part of the C# Fundamentals tutorial completes the examination of the DateTime data type provided by C# and the .NET Framework. This article considers manipulation of DateTime data and formatting date and time information as a string.

In this article we will look at some of the language enhancements in C# 3.0. Throughout the article we will use code examples to demonstrate these new enhancements and how to apply them to real world problems. This article will give you the core understanding you will require to further explore the C# 3.0 language using many of its new features.

Useful concurrency classes and small test bench in C#

One of the first things that developers new to the Microsoft .NET Framework learn is how to read from and write to text files using methods from the FileStream class of the System.IO namespace. However, the .NET I/O stream model also provides developers with a powerful way to create custom stream classes. In this month's column, I'll explain key techniques you can use to test such custom stream classes-and specifically those that deal with transforming data read from or written to another stream.

A look at the c# "using" keyword. What happens behind the scenes.