One of the very cool things about the new await keyword in C# and Visual Basic is that it’s pattern based. It works great with Task and Task<TResult>, and awaiting those two types will represent the vast majority of uses, but they’re by no means the only types that can be awaited. The languages support awaiting any ins...
The Parallel Computing Platform team is part of a larger organization at Microsoft focused on technical computing, which as Wikipedia describes it “is the application of the mathematical and computational principles of scientific computing to solve practical problems of industrial interest.” Suffice it to say that there are a ton ...
It’s been awesome seeing the level of interest developers have had for the Async CTP and how much usage it’s getting. Of course, with any new technology there are bound to be some hiccups. One issue I’ve seen arise now multiple times is developers accidentally deadlocking their application by blocking their UI thread, ...
What’s Razor?Razor is a simple-syntax view engine that is released as part of ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) 3. Read more about the syntax on ScottGu’s blog or on ASP.NET How can I get Razor syntax support in Visual Studio 2010?It’s simple. Install the MVC3 RTM bits via Web Platform Installer or download the installer directl...
Back in November I participated in Virtual Tech Days which is an online conference presented by Microsoft. In the session I discussed the enhancements to web deployment using Visual Studio 2010 and MSDeploy. Some of the topics which I covered includ: You can download the video & all of my sample files at http:...
With the release of VS2010 SP1 Beta1, Web Matrix, and Razor QFE, we can build web projects containing SQL Compact Edition 4.0 sdf file and ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor syntax. However, this might be a problem when you are ready to deploy your project on a server that doesn’t have the assemblies required to run SQL CE 4.0 and Razor pages. To...
