The response to our initial post on this blog about Maestro has inspired us to give it its own blog. If you’re not yet in the know, Maestro is a new incubation language from Microsoft’s Parallel Computing Platform team for safe and scalable parallel programming for .NET. If you have interest in Maestro or any topics related to iso...
This post is next in the series of VS 2010 articles that we have been putting together to dive into the Web Deployment improvements with VS 2010 and IIS. I would recommend reading the the preceding posts to get an overview of all the scenarios supported: In this post I will cover web package creation using MSBuild command line. M...
jQuery 1.3 was released a little over a month ago. The 1.3 release adds exciting features such as selector performance improvements, "live events" where events can be bound to both current and future elements, and more. Version 1.3.2 was released a few days ago and fixes some bugs include one involving selector performance in IE. I just...
The March installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Justin Van Patten on Isolated Storage in Silverligth 2. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here. As always, please let us know if you have ...
As Andrew pointed out in his recent post, the February installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line. This month we have an article from Andrew Pardoe on Handling Corrupted State Exceptions.You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here. As always, ...
You’ve seen the advice before—it’s not a good programming practice to catch System.Exception. Because managed exceptions are hierarchical, catching the top of the hierarchy—e.g., catch(Exception)—is an easy way to make sure that you catch all exceptions. But do you really want to catch all exceptions?...
It’s very common in a parallel application to need random numbers for this or that operation. For situations where random numbers don’t need to be cryptographically-strong, the System.Random class is typically a fast-enough mechanism for generating values that are good-enough. However, effectively utilizing Random in a paral...
The IIS team has just shipped the Microsoft Application Request Routing 1.0 module for IIS7!!!Application Request Routing (ARR) enables Web server administrators and hosting providers and to increase Web application reliability and scalability through rule-based routing and load balancing of HTTP server requests. With ARR, administrators can optimi...
At PDC 2008 and TechEd EMEA 2008, Daniel Moth delivered several hit talks on parallel programming with the .NET Framework 4.0. The videos of both of those talks are available online, and he’s since created a series of blog posts capturing the content from those sessions in a way that should make it easy for others to re-present the cont...
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