It was very warm and humid last night in Manchester, UK and so I sat up late catching up on a whole bunch of blog-reading that I haven’t done for a few weeks.
I tend to use my blog-reader ( FeedDemon ) in the same way that I use Outlook. I go through everything, delete anything I’m less interested in and then revisit the other stuff at a later point and I thought I’d spend some time today visiting all those posts I’d flagged as interesting. Whilst doing that, I thought I’d share what they were here – note that some of this stuff is a little old now as I’ve not been reading those blogs as frequently as I used to.
I’m sure I was meant to be doing something else but I found a day mostly made up of reading other people’s posts really useful and enjoyable so I reckon it was a day well spent.
WPF
Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1 – this seemed particularly relevant to me based on my recent experiments with multi-touch
Workflow
10-4 Good Buddy, First Look at WF 4
Introduction to WF Designer Rehosting (Part 1)
Introduction to WF Designer Rehosting (Part 2)
A Tour on the WF4 Activity Palette
Migration Guidance for the WF Developer
Introduction to Workflow Tracking in .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1
Sequential and Flowchart modeling styles
Parallel Programming ( lots and lots of goodness in here )
The Nature of TaskCompletionSource
Cancellation in Parallel Extensions
Tasks and the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern
Tasks and Unhandled Exceptions
Don’t Dispose of Objects You Don’t Own
How PLINQ Processes an IEnumerable on Multiple Cores
Achieving Speedups with Small Parallel Loop Bodies
Parallel Loops over Non Integral Types
WCF
Service Configuration Improvements in .NET 4
Dude, Where's my WCF Content? – I really like the redesign of this developer centre around simplification – seems like a step forward to me. BTW go here for the training kit for WCF/WF 4.
Entity Framework
Updated Entity Framework Documentation for Beta1
POCO in the Entity Framework- Part 1 – The Experience
POCO in the Entity Framework – Part 2 – Complex Types, Deferred Loading and Explicit Loading
POCO in the Entity Framework – Part 3 – Change Tracking with POCO
Using Repository and Unit of Work patterns with Entity Framework 4.0
Announcing- Entity Framework Feature CTP 1
Feature CTP Walkthrough- Self Tracking Entities for Entity Framework
Feature CTP Walkthrough- POCO Templates for Entity Framework
General
Debugging .NET Dumps in Visual Studio 2010
Security Policy in .NET 4 – Implicit Uses of CAS Policy ( and part 2 )
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