When teaching recursion in an introductory computer science course, one of the most common examples used involves a tree data structure. Trees are useful in this regard as they are simple and recursive in nature, with a tree's children also being trees, and allow for teaching different kinds of traversals (in-order, pre-order, post-order...
I often get the question “Why isn’t IntelliSense working?”. The most common cause is an error in one of the referenced scripts. If there was an IntelliSense update error, the status bar will tell you. Given this situation, the Error List will complement the status bar with one of two messages. Error Message 1: A script failed to ...
In the Seattle area and want to hear more about PLINQ? Igor Ostrovsky, a developer on the Parallel Extensions team, will be speaking today at the Seattle Code Camp from 3:00-4:15pm. Check it out!
In December 2007, we had released Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of VS 2008 Web Deployment Projects... Thanks a ton to all of you in the community for being so active in adopting and trying the CTP versions of WDP... Since the December CTP we have been monitoring the blogs, MS Connect feedback system as well WDP forums to collect ...
Quick Overview of LINQ Aggregations In order to explain the issues we encounter when parallelizing aggregations in PLINQ, let's first take a quick look at how aggregations work in LINQ.Aggregation is an operation that iterates over a sequence of input elements, maintaining an accumulator that contains the intermediate result. At each step, a reduct...
Web server settings, which are accessible inside Web Application Projects (WAPs) property pages (Web section) allow you to specify settings associated to to Visual Studio Development Server or IIS. Many a times in a team development environment it is preferred that these settings are shared across the teams providing consistency; at the...
Sometimes very simple additions to an API or implementation make me happy. One such nicety in the CTP of PLINQ is the implementation of ToString on the concrete types that represent query operators. These implementations provide a textual representation of the query structure, which can be very nice for debugging purposes. Consider...
