“Don’t forget to complete your tasks.” That guidance may sound trivial and silly, but I recently saw it as a source of a bug in software written by some very smart folks, and thus thought this would be a good opportunity to remind folks of the imperative.Tasks represent a promise. If you hand one out, someone else may&...
Travis Leithead showed a video "Building responsive apps and sites with HTML5 web workers" in BUILD. When editing "Dedicated worker" JavaScript file in Visual Studio 11 Developer's Preview, we need to add the following line in the beginning of the file to get the proper JavaScript web walker IntelliSense in the editor: "Dedicated Worker" is a re...
For the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview, a lot of work has been done to improve the Task Parallel Library (TPL), in terms of functionality, in terms of performance, and in terms of integration with the rest of the .NET Framework. With all of this work, we’ve strived for a very high compatibility bar, which means your applications t...
It’s been a few months since April when we last released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll, aka “TPL Dataflow”. Today for your programming pleasure, we have another update.As mentioned in “What’s New for Parallelism in .NET 4.5”, System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll ...
Fundamentals were a big part of our focus while building .NET 4.5. We divided fundamentals into seven areas called “tenets”. One of these tenets is compatibility. Today’s post is by Manish Agnihotri, a program manager who is driving compatibility across the .NET Framework. -- Brandon Editor's update: we've added more discuss...
The upcoming version of Visual Studio introduces a number of improvements focused on diagnosing your Web Applications. One of these is the new Page Inspector. Page Inspector is a new tool that brings browser diagnostics tools into Visual Studio and provides an integrated experience between the browser, ASP.NET, and source code. Using Page Inspecto...
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is now unsupported. Last week at the BUILD conference, we had the pleasure of announcing the next version of the .NET Framework and releasing a developer preview at the same time. We have so many new things in .NET 4.5 to discuss with our developer community – w...
Last time I posted a "So, what's new" entry was when we release 4.0 ~3 years ago (can't believe it's already been that long..). Now I get to talk about what's new in the 4.5 GC. Actually I just talked about this with Channel 9 and here's the link to the video: https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Maoni-Stephens-CLR-45-Server-Background-GC ...
[Updated 5/17/2012 for Visual Studio 11 Beta] In Visual Studio 11 Beta, C++ AMP enables you to accelerate your applications using heterogeneous hardware such as GPUs. If you are a .NET developer, you can still use C++ AMP in your applications. You’ll write most of your code in C#, the pieces to execute on the GPU in C++ AMP, and then use your...
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview has many new HTML editor features, including the following: Scott Gu's Blog: From ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Whitepaper Discussed a little bit more here than in the whitepaper: Smart indentation The indentation of HTML ele...
