Among other API changed in WinRT, major changes were introduced to the image manipulation capabilities available in the .NET Framework out-of-the-box. For one...
0 replies - 4983 views - 05/12/12 by Den Delimarsky 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
NOTE: I am not sure how this will affect Marketplace certification for your application. Internally,
a lot of images are referenced as resources. For...
0 replies - 3004 views - 05/12/12 by Den Delimarsky 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
The Visual Studio Blog - Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC With
the release of Visual Studio 11 Beta back in February of this year, we...
0 replies - 2384 views - 05/09/12 by Greg Duncan 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 - 1638 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
An amazing thing happened last month. I was at DrupalCon in Denver.
It’s a Woodstock of open source-oriented developers who reliably asked
me,...
0 replies - 2528 views - 05/07/12 by Jerry Nixon in Articles
As I was working on a Dream.Build.Play project, I thought about replacing a static (read: somewhat boring, maybe) background in the main menu to a moving one....
0 replies - 3548 views - 05/06/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
One of my hobby projects, Beem, is a pretty successful DI.FM streaming application in the Windows Phone Marketplace. What I did in this application is...
0 replies - 2783 views - 05/06/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
Introduction Through and through I love XAML. I love
building and working with SL, WPF, WP7, and Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps.
But one thing that I’m...
0 replies - 3146 views - 05/06/12 by Michael Crump 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
One of the least used WCF extension points is IWsdlExportExtension.
This extension allows to customize the WSDL document which WCF emits.
Since you rarely...
0 replies - 1486 views - 05/05/12 by Yaron Naveh in Articles
