Julian Skinner Julian Skinner
Julian Skinner is a freelance C# programmer and technical author. He studied Germanic etymology to PhD level before learning computer programming while working first for Wrox Press and then for Apress. He is a co-author of The Programmer's Guide to SQL, Pro SQL Server 2005 and Pro SQL Server 2005 Assemblies. You can contact him through his website at http://www.JulianSkinner.com.
Asynchronous Processing in .NET Part 2
by Julian Skinner | 18 August 2006 |  10 comments |
Julian Skinner presents an in-depth tutorial on thread synchronization in .NET, covering the most important Synchronization objects and including a full worked example. Read more...
Asynchronous processing in .NET part 1: fundamentals
by Julian Skinner | 19 June 2006 |  12 comments |
In Windows Forms applications, we often need to perform some complex processing in the background, while still continuing with other tasks, such as monitoring user input and updating the user interface. For example, if you think of a web browser, it fetches and... Read more...
Practical SQL Server 2005 CLR Assemblies
by Julian Skinner | 28 February 2006 |  5 comments |
One advantage of CLR assemblies is the ability to consume web services from within the database. This wouldn’t be easy with T-SQL, and would also require a lot of work in an unmanaged extended stored procedure. With .NET, it’s almost as simple as accessing a local DLL. Read more...
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