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The Eclipse Foundation for open source tools held its technical conference, EclipseCon 2005, in Burlingame, Calif., the week of Feb. 28. Stressing its momentum, the organization touted participation frrm vendors such as BEA Systems, Borland Socqftware, Computer Associates International, and Sybase. Mike Milinkovich, a former Oracle vice president of technical services, became the first executive director of the independent foundation when Eclipse was spun out of IBM last year. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill discussed Eclipse goings-on and impacts with Milinkovich.

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Microsoft 11864 Published by Bob 0

This presentation is an overview of best practices and issues with the usage of exceptions, and different issues surrounding memory management including the IDisposable pattern, finalizers, memorypressure, HandleCollector, and why the using statement (Using in VB) is your friend! It's an excellent overview of some fundamental exception and memory management topics.

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