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This one’s just a bit of “fun” for a Friday afternoon ( depending on how you define “fun” ). I was writing some asynchronous code yesterday in JavaScript and I then had cause to duplicate it in .NET using the await support of the Async CTP which I’ve tried to write about before ( generally and combined...
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I’ve just finished reading through Adam Freeman’s “Pro .NET 4 Parallel Programming in C#” book and I thought I’d give it a bit of a shout out. I’ve had a bit of a pause in reading technical books lately but the nice folks at Apress were kind enough to send me a copy of Adam’s book and so I thought the...
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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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Yeah, I know – another cheesy title for a blog post I downloaded the CTP of asynchronous support in C# along with the corresponding specification as described by Anders in his recent PDC 2010 session . This has already been explained elsewhere so this post is mainly just my own thoughts on tinkering...
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I did a couple of sessions at DevWeek this week and had a really good time meeting up with various folks and chatting about technologies. My sessions were on; VB and C# in Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Extensions in Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight and HTML/Javascript interoperability (in Silverlight 2)...
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A big thanks to all the people who came along to my talk on Parallel Extensions at the NxtGen User Group in Coventry last night. The slides that were used should be visible up on SlideShare if you want them for any reason. Note to self: “Coventry is not ‘right next to Birmingham’ and is actually 100...