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It was quite an eventful year for me and there were various changes in my personal life as well as my professional life. The non-personal high-point this year was the MVP summit in Redmond – it’s probably the best way to see the Microsoft campus (at least a small part of it) without getting employed [...]

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The CLR interns managed strings – this means that if the same string is used multiple times, all of them refer to the same instance of the string. This is possible because System::String is immutable – so the moment you change one of those strings, you are actually changing the reference which now refers to [...]

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I used to be an excellent speller till I started using word processors and editors with built-in spell checking. Funnily, I never realized how profoundly my spelling abilities had deteriorated until very recently, when I had to write a letter by hand. I was horribly shocked to find that I wasn’t half-sure of the proper [...]

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Close on the heels of my article on interior pointers, I’ve written one on pinning pointers :- Guide to using Pinning Pointers

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