I get this question a lot: “Task implements IDisposable and exposes a Dispose method. Does that mean I should dispose of all of my tasks?” SummaryHere’s my short answer to this question: “No. Don’t bother disposing of your tasks.”Here’s my medium-length answer: “No. Don&rsquo...
Lately I’ve received several questions along the lines of the following, which I typically summarize as “async over sync”: In my library, I have a method “public T Foo();”. I’m considering exposing an asynchronous method that would simply wrap the synchronous one, e.g. “public Task<T> FooAsync...
In earlier blog, we mentioned that Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web is available to download. Besides the common features seen in Visual Studio 2010 Web Express, it provides some new functionalities. TFS support VS11 Express Beta for Web added TFS support which including all of the TFS client features, such as source control, team ex...
Application performance is something we hear about all the time. It almost always falls into one of the top three issues when we aggregate all of the feedback channels from .NET developers. While performance has many characteristics, application startup time is something that everyone can easily relate to. With the .NET Framework 4.5 Beta and the “...
In Visual Studio 11 Beta, we have exciting JavaScript editing features for the developers. Last year, we blogged “JavaScript Web development differences between Visual Studio 11 Developer preview and Visual Studio 2010”. Here are the differences between Visual Studio 11 Beta and Visual Studio 2010. IntelliSense XML Document ...
Every now and then, I get this question: “is it ok to use nested Parallel.For loops?” The short answer is “yes.” As is often the case, the longer answer is, well, longer. Typically when folks ask this question, they’re concerned about one of two things. First, they’re concerned that each nested loop will assume it “owns the machine” and will thu...
Visual Studio 11 Beta has some more improvement in HTML and CSS editors over the Developer Preview time. You can see the major feature descriptions through www.asp.net/vnext . In this channel9 video, Mads Kristensen demonstrated a few great HTML/CSS editor features in VS11 Beta (The video also demos Page inspector features by Jorge Gabuardi, ...
Rapid development has been one of the enduring themes behind the design of the .NET Framework. We know that authoring application installers is particularly difficult and could be improved. The following post is by Richard Lander from the program management team on the Common Language Runtime. He explains our motivations for introducing a new mod...
We found Visual Studio 11 Beta hits a crash bug when editing a Razor page (cshtml/vbhtml) in a MVC4 project or a Razor2 Website if the indenting option for the HTML editor is set to Block instead of Smart. The workaround is to go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->HTML->Tab and change the indenting option to Smart.HTML smart indenting is a...
Are you using the new System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll library, either from its CTPs or from the .NET 4.5 Developer Preview or Beta? We'd love to hear about it, and if you have time, what your experiences have been (good or bad). What kind of solution are you building, and how are you using TPL Dataflow in it? Has the library h...
