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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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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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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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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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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...