Author: Andrey Podkolzin

Andrey has more than 3 years of .NET development experience in Devart. He likes to optimize and parallel code. In the past, he had a passion for game development, however, nowadays he focused on the desktop products development.

In Search of Fast Local Storage

Andrey Podkolzin
In Search of Fast Local Storage
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Recently, I was involved in the development of the functionality that required a fast and frequent transfer of large volumes of data to disc. In addition, this data was supposed to be read from disk from time to time. Therefore, I was destined to find out the place, the way and the means for storing this data. In this article, I will briefly review the task, as well as investigate and compare solutions for completion of this task.

Context of the task: I work in a team that develops tools for relative database development (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle). The tool range includes both, standalone tools, and add-ins for MS SSMS.

Task: Restoring documents that were opened at the moment of IDE closing at the next start of IDE. Read More

Handling a GDI Resource Leak

Andrey Podkolzin
Handling a GDI Resource Leak
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GDI leak (or, simply the usage of too many GDI objects) is one of the most common problems. It eventually causes rendering problems, errors, and/or performance problems. The article describes how we debug this problem.

In 2016, when most programs are executed in sandboxes wherefrom even the most incompetent developer cannot harm the system, I am amazed to face the problem I will speak about in this article. Frankly speaking, I hoped that this problem had gone forever together with Win32Api. Nevertheless, I faced it. Before that, I just heard horror stories about it from old more experienced developers. Read More