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.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 7: Regular Expression Timeouts

Introduction While the regular expression passing in .NET is damn fast, there are times where it can take too long for your needs. Until now there hasn’t...

0 replies - 1480 views - 05/18/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Simplify Syntax with Extension Methods

Extension methods were first introduced with LINQ in C#3.0. They are just a syntactic construct, but as we’ll see in this post they can make a huge...

0 replies - 2437 views - 05/16/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 5: Some More Interesting Blocks

Introduction We have seen the IDataFlowBlock, in three different implementations and now we will look at a few more. BroadcastBlock<T> In the...

0 replies - 2324 views - 05/15/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World

In my last blog post, I covered how to wrap your arms around the Task class and its relationship to the new async and await keywords. I mentioned that the...

0 replies - 2110 views - 05/15/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Virtualization in WPF with VirtualizingStackPanel

First blogged about this on my previous blog site...

0 replies - 2780 views - 05/14/12 by Merrick Chaffer in Articles

The Task: Events, Asynchronous Calls, Async and Await

Almost any software application today will likely contain a long-running process. “Long-running” may be a relative term but in the Windows Runtime it...

0 replies - 2275 views - 05/12/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 Released

BCL Team Blog - Announcing Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 [Mircea] Today we are announcing the Beta release of the Portable Library...

0 replies - 2068 views - 05/10/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 3: IDataFlowBlock

Introduction A new interface in .NET is the IDataFlowBlock, which is implemented in many interesting ways, so to look at those we will start off with the...

0 replies - 2262 views - 05/10/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 2: Task Timeout Cancellation

Introduction When Tasks where introduced in .NET 4 one of the fantastic abilities was to be able to pass in a CancellationToken and use that to...

0 replies - 2429 views - 05/09/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Using PowerShell to Publish a NuGet Package

At my employer we have a local NuGet server to host all of our internal packages. Occasionally, I’ll be working on a project and realize that I need to...

0 replies - 1640 views - 05/08/12 by Michael Ceranski in Articles

.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 1: ThreadLocal

Introduction ThreadLocal<T> was introduced in .NET 4 and didn’t get much attention because it didn’t do much over the ThreadStaticAttribute which...

0 replies - 1614 views - 05/08/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Spoofing the Host Entry in a HTTPWebRequest

I had this idea to create a dashboard that would ping different version of a site in order to get the build number. The details are as...

0 replies - 1999 views - 05/06/12 by Paul Stack in Articles

A Look At the CLR 4.5 Internals

eknowledger - CLR 4.5: .Net Framework Kernel Improvements "In this post I’ll go through some of the enhancements and improvements done by the...

0 replies - 1977 views - 05/05/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Cocoon - An Easier Way To Develop Windows 8 Applications

Cocoon "Cocoon is a framework to support the development of .Net Windows 8 Metro-style applications, in particular those that link to web...

0 replies - 2890 views - 05/03/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

EF Code First/MVC NotNullAttribute

Unfortunately MVC3 doesn’t respect the [Required] attribute’s AllowEmptyStrings property. When using a class both as an MVC model and as an EF Code...

0 replies - 1944 views - 05/03/12 by Anders Abel in Articles