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Jun 29, 2011
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Quick microbenchmarks in Visual Studio with Code Snippets

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Parallelism is all about performance.  After all, in the majority of cases, introducing parallelism into code adds some level of complexity, and the primary reason we’re ok with that additional complexity is because we get great performance enhancements as a result.  As such, as we develop our parallel runtimes and libraries to help...

.NET Parallel Programming
Jun 27, 2011
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Using Tasks to implement the APM Pattern

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Several times recently, folks have asked how to use tasks to implement the APM pattern, otherwise known as the Asynchronous Programming Model pattern, or the IAsyncResult pattern, or the Begin/End pattern.  While moving forward we encourage folks to use a Task-based pattern for exposing asynchronous operation, the APM pattern has been the prev...

.NET Parallel Programming
Jun 15, 2011
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Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

  We are pleased to announce the first Web Standards Update for Visual Studio SP1. It updates the HTML5 intellisense and validation to reflect the latest W3C specifications and fixes some bugs bugs in the current SP1 support for HTML5. Also JavaScript intellisense it updated to reflect many of the new browser capabilities such as Geolocation ...

ASP.NET
Jun 10, 2011
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We are Hiring!!

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

Do you want to work in a challenging, fun and growth oriented environment leading Microsoft transition to the Cloud? Are you passionate about Web development? Do you want to work with key technologies like ASP.Net, MVC, Razor, JavaScript, Azure, Mobile? Do you want to see how your work can directly impact our customers? If you answer yes to these ...

ASP.NET
Jun 7, 2011
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Walkthrough: deploy a web application with SQL CE 4.0 database to IIS host with SQL Server.

Web Development Tools Microsoft
Web Development Tools Microsoft

With VS2010 sp1, we added SQL CE 4.0 support. You can view more information about SQL CE 4.0 from the following sites: Here is a walk through of how to deploy a SQL CE database to SQL Server database using web application publish. 1. Create a web application 2. Add a SQL CE 4.0 database via “Add New item”: 3. In server explorer,...

ASP.NET
Jun 6, 2011
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Parallel Merge Sort using Barrier

Emad Omara
Emad Omara

Sorting is one of the most fundamental problems in software algorithms; there are many sequential sorting algorithms with different time and memory complexities, but when it comes to parallel sort, things get more complicated. I will explain a simple and scalable algorithm to write a parallel sort using the .NET 4.0 System.Threading.Barrier synchro...

.NET Parallel Programming
Jun 6, 2011
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Changes coming to ClickOnce applications running in the Internet Zone

CLR Team
CLR Team

We wanted to let you know that we’ll be changing the signature verification process for ClickOnce applications and WPF XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) in an upcoming update.  This change will help users recognize when they’re running untrusted applications from the Internet Zone, but may require you to make changes to your applic...

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