February 2012 - Posts

• Oh no! My padding's invalid!

  Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:33 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  Recently, I've been doing some work involving cryptography, and encountered the standard .NET CryptographicException: 'Padding is invalid and cannot be removed.' Searching on StackOverflow produces 57 questions concerning this exception; it's a very common Read More by Simon Cooper | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentDictionary

  Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:08 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  Using locks to implement a thread-safe collection is rather like using a sledgehammer - unsubtle, easy to understand, and tends to make any other tool redundant. Unlike the previous two collections I looked at, ConcurrentStack and ConcurrentQueue, ConcurrentDictionary Read More by Simon Cooper | 0 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: Inside the Concurrent Collections