Forget Vista Animation

Check out XGL it looks way to advance than what vista can offer.

Time difference logger

Did you ever have to log time taken by some chunk of code? I hate writing log statements every where to get time difference - so I came up with this :

   1: using System;

   2: using System.Collections.Generic;

   3: using System.Linq;

   4: using System.Text;

   5: using System.Threading;

   6:  

   7: namespace TimeLogger

   8: {

   9:     class Program

  10:     {

  11:         static void Main(string[] args)

  12:         {

  13:             using (TimeLogger tl = new TimeLogger("sleeper"))

  14:             {

  15:                 Thread.Sleep(3000);

  16:             }

  17:         }

  18:     }

  19: }

   1: using System;

   2: using System.Collections.Generic;

   3: using System.Linq;

   4: using System.Text;

   5: using System.Diagnostics;

   6:  

   7: namespace TimeLogger

   8: {

   9:     public sealed class TimeLogger:IDisposable

  10:     {

  11:         private Stopwatch sw;

  12:         private string codeDescription = string.Empty;

  13:         public TimeLogger()

  14:         {

  15:             this.sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();

  16:         }

  17:         public TimeLogger(string codeDescription)

  18:         {

  19:             this.codeDescription = codeDescription;

  20:             this.sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();

  21:         }

  22:  

  23:         void IDisposable.Dispose()

  24:         {

  25:             sw.Stop();

  26:             if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(codeDescription))

  27:                 Console.WriteLine("Time taken by = {0} ms", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);

  28:             Console.WriteLine("Time taken by {0} = {1} ms",codeDescription, sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);

  29:         }

  30:     }

  31: }

What do you think?

VS 2008 and .net 3.5 is out

.NET Framework 3.5 Runtime Now Available
Visual Studio 2008 Express editions (free)

Multithreading is a pain

synchronizing pieces of code is a lot lot harder than i thought... basically this is the first time i am working on multithreading stuff. I added a lot of variables just to keep track of the state... then my manager gave me a solution to have a seperate entity which will co-ordinate and supervise all the threads... hmmm lets see how that one goes.

Make Vista go ....zzzZZZ

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Looks like you cannot make Vista machine go to sleep using the shutdown command, but there is this pill available :

rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0