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Using the CCR to Provide Robust Interaction With WCF Services

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:12:10 GMT

This post provides a complete implementation of a WinForms client calling a WCF service using Microsoft Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR). We were able to write clean code that correctly interacted with the UI thread giving us a fully-responsive UI, were able to cache the service requests by posting them into the wrapper's input port, we NEVER blocked a thread while waiting for asynchronous I/O, and handled all failure conditions cleanly.

Functional .NET 4.0 - Tuples and Zip

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:02 GMT

F# vs .NET 4.0

Getting Started with Subversion - VisualSVN and TortoiseSVN

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:52:48 GMT

A step-by-step guide (with lots of screenshots) showing how to easily set up a Subversion server using VisualSVN Server and a Subversion client using TortoiseSVN. Great for beginners.

LINQ to SQL Has a Future Despite the Rumors

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:08:04 GMT

Despite all the rumors, Scott Guthrie says that there are no plans to drop LINQ to SQL.

LINQ To SQL is Dead - Read Between the Lines

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:46:13 GMT

David Hayden with some great points on the Linq to SQL announcement and some ideas on how the project could be saved.

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

7 Steps To Shameless (Successful) Self Promotion

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:46:13 GMT

How do you get yourself known in the community and in the industry? Jeff offers 7 steps on how to get yourself out there.

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Visual Studio 2010

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:31:06 GMT

My first look at Visual Studio 2010 codename "Rosario". I showed some screen shots and and some new features of the new visual studio.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:31:13 GMT

"Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web."

Functional C# Recap

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:01:14 GMT

"Here are some resources that will be helpful in covering functional programming aspects as well as other topics covered." (Link collection)

Recursing into Recursion - Memoization

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:17:05 GMT

Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on Recursion. In this post he deals with memoization (speeding up your programs by avoiding repetitive calculations for previously processed function inputs). This is a great read; especially if you are into functional programming.

5 Ways to Know If Your Software Sucks

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:18:18 GMT

Learn why software sucks from .NET professor David Platt. David's colorful and thought-provoking insights will have you looking at your applications with a new perspective.

Software I can't work without

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:46:10 GMT

I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to.

Different Ways Of Retrieving Data From Collections

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:28:26 GMT

C# as a language has matured over years. We have come a long way from the first version of C# to the current which incorporates LINQ. Here is an example I recently used in a training session. My objective was to show students how we can retrieve items from a collection based on a certain criteria in different ways.

Microsoft and Open Source...A New Love Story

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Brian Prince outlines the latest happenings between Microsoft and the open source community. Including sponsoring the Apache Software Foundation.

Using Regions in Code Files

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Recently I have been confronted with a movement that seems to hate using #Regions in source code files. Personally I really like using regions and I absolutely like the ability to collapse sections of code I am not directly working with.

WCF Simplified to a Single Diagram

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:27:45 GMT

Anyone learning WCF for the first time will quickly become bewildered by the array of new terms and concepts they have to get their heads around. As part of a presentation I did recently I produced a single diagram that helps gain a quick overview of these terms and how they relate to one another. Check it out.

A Money Type for the CLR

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:52:47 GMT

A convenient, high-performance money structure for the CLR which handles arithmetic operations, currency types, formatting, and careful distribution and rounding without loss. Also, a look at the various approaches out there for creating a Money type on the CLR.

Linq Framework Design Guidelines - evolve into optimized frameworks

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:08:03 GMT

This is from the team that brought you 'Framework Design Guidelines' led by Krzysztof Cwalina, an individual we are not shy to recognize as an amazing mind. Look for this content (as shared here from their internal work) in the next of the book For example : defer execution of query operator implementations. The expected behavior of most of the Query Pattern members is that they simply construct a new object which, upon enumeration, produces the elements of the set which match the query. The evaluation time is, then, at enumeration.

Andre Loker - How deep is your clone?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:38:27 GMT

Someone asked in a forum: Why is there no ICloneable<T> only ICloneable? Good question. It wouldn't have taken too much effort to introduce a generic version when .NET 2.0 came out. But I think MS had a good reason not to introduce ICloneable<T>. And that's because they realized that ICloneable sucks in the first place! Why is that? Because it is effectively undefined what cloning does

Controlling your Treadmill from Silverlight - Part 2

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:45:02 GMT

In the first part of this series, I demonstrated a Silverlight application that controls a treadmill. Today, we will go into a little more detail on using various audio signals (aka Chirps) which, in turn, instruct the treadmill to change settings. To keep things simple, we are going to just focus on the speed and incline aspect of the application in this post.

The woes of SourceForge.net and SVN

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:37:16 GMT

A little information about the MergeInfo not supported message with Tortoise 1.5.x and previous versions of SVN servers like SourceForge.net

Faster Than Reflection - Lambda Almighty

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:54:36 GMT

In my previous post Using Lambdas To Write A Faster Factory I was demonstrating a neat use of lambdas in conjunction with a dictionary to create a concise and quick factory pattern. Since then I've found some other really nice uses for lambdas and stumbled across some other LINQ related goodness. In this post, I'm going to demonstrate a way to use Lambdas in place of reflection for reading and writing values at runtime and run some performance numbers by you.

Mediator Pattern

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:11:12 GMT

The post describes the mediator design pattern and shows an example of how to use it in C#