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Following up on that previous post about the DDD North event here’s the screen-captured version of my Rx talk from the event with a couple of longer sections inserted into it that I ( quietly ) took out on the day based on the timing. I’d recommend going full-screen on that video if you want to view...
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This one was just a side-product of something else that I was toying with but I’d made this little Silverlight screen that let me search FlickR; which you can run by clicking on the image above if you like ( it’s not too polished ) but I used the Reactive Extensions (Rx) in a couple of places in the...
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I got caught out by something simple about scheduling in Rx and so I thought I’d share. I started with something that was fairly complicated but then boiled it down to a simple repro which helped me to figure it out and then when I asked around I got helpfully pointed to this forum post where someone...
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Someone tweeted on Twitter that they wanted to stop the UI thread in Silverlight while they performed a couple of asynchronous network activities because one activity depended on the output of another. To be honest, I don’t really like the idea and I’ve drawn this slide in the past; where I’ve advised...
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One of the comments on this blog last week when I posted around the release of the Reactive Extensions (Rx) was; “Any chance you could provide a "brief" overview of where TPL, Rx and Async CTP all hang together??” ( that’s the Task Parallel Library , the Reactive Extensions and the Async CTP...
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I’m a big fan of the Reactive Extensions (Rx) and I’ve put together a post or two in the past and also even done a talk or two around the topic so it was great to see that the Reactive Extensions team have put out their first full release of the framework this week There are actually 2 releases – the...
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I wanted to follow up on that previous post with the video for the Reactive Extensions talk from DevDays with a blow-by-blow account of the code that I ran through. As an aside, since the talk I’ve updated my Rx libraries to pick up the very latest version and I’d recommend that you do the same before...
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I was lucky to be able to spend part of last week at the ever impressive DevDays conference out at The Hague in Holland. This is run by the Microsoft folks in Holland and I’ve been speaking at it for the past few years and I always find it’s one of the very best conferences out there and this year was...
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Stephen pointed out last week that there’s a preview update to the “Native Extensions to Silverlight” up on CodePlex and this preview adds some capabilities around touch and having written a little around that topic recently; Touched ( Part 1 )–Getting Touch for Free Touched ( Part 2 )–Raw Touch Events...
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A bit of an experiment… I was tinkering with some code the other day to pull down some images from FlickR using one of their RESTful APIs for searching. Essentially, it revolves around building up a URI to represent the search which (in my case) looks something like; http://api.flickr.com/services/rest...
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I’ve been taking a look at the Reactive Extensions for .NET. It’s early days for me at this point but I’m finding what I’m seeing to be really interesting. This is code that’s available from the DevLabs; and there are versions for .NET 3.5 Sp1, .NET 4.0, Silverlight 3, Silverlight 4 and also for JavaScript...