Robert Maclean05/23/12
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The ISourceBlock interface is implemented on the “publisher” like blocks and it has a very interesting method: LinkTo. Robert Maclean explains its purpose in this article.
Alexander Beletsky05/23/12
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Alexander Beletsky does a quick overview of what's coming up in the GitHub for Windows build that was recently released by the GitHub team.
Mitch Pronschinske05/21/12
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Why would anyone want to build Hadoop MapReducers in .NET? For one, Hadoop is a Java tool and JNBridge thinks they've found a way to make .NET a first class citizen by using their .NET to Java interop technology.
Den Delimarsky05/20/12
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Den Delimarsky shows where the APPX applications are downloaded from the Windows Store, in case developers who used the Deverloper Preview are wondering where those moved.
Douglas Rathbone05/20/12
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Microsoft developers hear a lot about tools that will make them write faster, more efficient, more refactored, more unit tested code all the time. People don’t often talk of tools that help you to visualise your project’s growing code smell though.
Greg Duncan05/20/12
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.NET Framework 4.5 has built-in capabilities for data compression using ZIP tools - something that was provided by third-parties in previous releases.
Jeremy Likness05/20/12
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Jeremy Likness talks about secondary tile debugging - a process that might be new even for professional developers who haven't touched the Windows 8 SDK yet.
Greg Duncan05/19/12
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Unit testing is great when done right, and it’s even good when done in a lax manner. However, it’s better to have no unit tests than terrible unit tests.
Greg Duncan05/18/12
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LightSwitch is now a core part of the Visual Studio product line! It will be available through Visual Studio 11 Professional, Premium and Ultimate.
Greg Duncan05/18/12
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The Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta SDK includes project templates, tools, tests, and reference assemblies that are required to build extensions for Visual Studio 11 Beta.
Merrick Chaffer05/18/12
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The ASP.NET MVC is becoming more and more popular each day. Here are some of the better practices, that if followed, may help maintain our application and also provide a means of scalability as the demand increases.
Robert Maclean05/18/12
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While the regular expression passing in .NET is fast, there are times where it can take too long for your needs. In .NET 4.5 we get the ability to timeout regular expressions if they take too long.
Lohith Nagaraj05/16/12
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Michael Crump is being interviewed on this episode of the Uncut & Edited videocast. He talks about XAML, Windows 8, Windows Phone and Silverlight.
Anders Abel05/16/12
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Anders Abel explains the benefit of using extension methods, that were first introduced with LINQ in C#3.0, in various parts of your C# application.
Robert Maclean05/15/12
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Robert Maclean continues his series on new and improved .NET 4.5 capabilities. Today he is discussing TransformBlock and BroadcastBlock.
Merrick Chaffer05/14/12
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Merrick Chaffer shows how to improve content stacking performance with VirtualizingStackPanel in WPF. He managed to figure out how to get virtualization to actually behave itself in a ListBox WPF control.
Jeremy Likness05/15/12
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Jeremy Likness shows some examples of async activity implemented in a Metro application, through the Task class.
Greg Duncan05/14/12
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Xamarin, the company behind the Mono framework, is releasing a visual application designer that allows developers to easily build applications for Android on top of Mono.
Daniel Mohl05/13/12
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Fog is a library that makes it easier to use F# to interact with Windows Azure through the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. It provides functions for many of the common activities related to table storage, blob storage, and queue storage as well as service bus queues and topics.
Sasha Goldshtein05/13/12
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Where do you fit performance in the software development lifecycle? This innocent question carries the mind baggage of having to retrofit performance into an existing process.
Den Delimarsky05/12/12
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Den Delimarsky shows how it is possible to crop an image in a Metro application, built on top of the managed WinRT APIs.
Martin Hinshelwood05/12/12
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Martin Hinshelwood continues his series on TFS data migration. In option #7, he basically overwrites the old work items with new ones.
Jeremy Likness05/12/12
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Jeremy Likness explains the WinRT asynchronous action model through the Task class, that took over the most frequently used .NET 4 async concepts.
Jeff Blankenburg05/11/12
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If you want to have your Windows 8 application available on launch date, there are several steps you can take. Jeff explains one way to accomplish this task.
Robert Maclean05/11/12
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Where ActionBlock could only be a subscriber, BatchBlock is more than that – it can be a subscriber and a publisher rolled into one. Details inside this article.
Java and .NET Interop with 2-Phase Commit