Must Read MSDN Magazine Articles

The last few issues of MSDN Magazine have had a number of excellent articles that in my view are must reads for all .NET developers

.NET 2.0 CAS - software engineers never know enough about security
SUPERASSERT - When John writes, everyone should read
Impact of Low-Lock Techniques - Did you know that .NET 2.0 has a different memory model to the ECMA memory model?
Reliability Features - CLR hosting, ICLRPolicyManager, Safe Handles...
Performance Pitfalls - always worth a re-read, especially when Joel admits Microsoft made a bad design decision.
SpinWaitLock - Jeffrey on concurrency.
OpenMP - C++ land. Also worth viewing the PDC C++: Future Directions in Language Innovation presentation.
Transaction on your class variables - very cool

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