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More on Maximum Object Sizes

(Jim Mischel) Last year I discussed the two gigabyte memory limitation in .NET. To recap, no single object in .NET can exceed two gigabytes in size. This limitation has some very important ramifications when working with arrays or collections that contain large numbers of items.

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Writing Testable Objects

(Matthew Cochran) One of the main places where we run into problems with code being hard to test is when we have utility classes “baked” inside the class we are trying to test and so we can’t reach them. For example, let’s say we have utility class that gets a group of numbers.