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.
Greg Duncan05/10/12
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Microsoft announced the Beta release of the Portable Library Tools 2 for Visual Studio 2010. It adds support for building portable libraries targeting more recent platforms, scoped to those features supported by Visual Studio 2010.
Robert Maclean05/10/12
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A new interface in .NET 4.5 is the IDataFlowBlock, which is implemented in many interesting ways, so to look at those Robert Maclean starts off with the simplest implementation.
Robert Maclean05/09/12
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Robert Maclean continues his series on .NET 4.5. Today he is talking about task cancellation capabilities that are tied to various async calls.
Greg Duncan05/09/12
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As developers requested, Visual Studio 11 introduces some changes to the UI with the RC build, one of them being color icons in the main workspace.
Michael Ceranski05/08/12
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NuGet packages are not necessarily installed through the package manager - those can also be installed with the help of PowerShell. Here is how.
Robert Maclean05/08/12
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Robert Maclean discusses some of the aspects of threaded development in .NET 4.5, specifically about the ThreadLocal - a class for that provides thread-local storage of data.
Tim Murphy05/08/12
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The main gripe this writer has is that, with the current iteration of SharePoint, you still need to develop on a server instance, which can be a serious barrier for new developers.
Anders Abel05/08/12
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Originally developed by the .NET framework team, LINQ to SQL does a 1-to-1 mapping between database structure and classes in the code.
Jerry Nixon05/07/12
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Jerry Nixon talks about the leading trend of users adopting Internet Explorer as their main web browser over its competitors.
Erik Ejlskov Jensen05/07/12
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Erik Jensen talks about the tooling available in Visual Studio 11, targeting developers who plan on working with SQL Server Compact.
Michael Crump05/06/12
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Michael Crump documents his temporary transition to ASP.NET development. He compares his steps to the regular XAML workflow.
Paul Stack05/06/12
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Paul Stack shows how some simple HttpWebRequest modifications allowed him to make multiple requests to different versions of the same site.
