
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

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

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

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

First blogged about this on my previous blog site...
0 replies - 2780 views - 05/14/12 by Merrick Chaffer in Articles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 "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

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