April 2012

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.NET for Metro style apps

Brandon Bray April 17, 2012 Apr 17, 2012 04/17/12

.NET is now a core part of several Microsoft platforms, and each has focused on specific subset of APIs. A lot of thought has been put into crafting each API surface area. Many of you have asked how the .NET APIs available for Metro style apps were chosen. In the following post, Immo Landwerth – a program manager on the CLR’s Core ...

Async in 4.5: Worth the Await

Brandon Bray April 3, 2012 Apr 3, 2012 04/3/12

Developers often ask for guidance on how to write responsive user interfaces. Reading most books about the .NET Framework over the past ten years, you’ll see coverage of the asynchronous programming model which requires a lot of careful attention while coding. That’s why the async features in the latest versions of C# and Visual Basic are ...

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