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    Accessing a .NET Bot’s State via Dependency Injection
    Accessing a .NET Bot’s State via Dependency Injection
    March 29, 2018 Mar 29, 2018 03/29/18
    Developer Support
    The .NET BotBuilder SDK has deprecated the StateClient class, leaving some to wonder how they should access their bot’s state. Premier Developer Consultant Ben Williams shares an example of using dependency injection in your BotFramework projects.When using the .NET BotBuilder SDK’s dialog system, you can access the bot state using the ...

    Comments are closed.0.NETBen WilliamsBot Framework
    Async Main() is available, but hidden
    Async Main() is available, but hidden
    January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
    Pam Lahoud
    Check out this quick tip on unlocking the new features of C# 7.1 from Premier Developer consultant Ben Williams.Ever try to use async/await in your Main method of a .NET app? You couldn’t before, but now you can. I just posted a quick tip about enabling this by turning on C# 7.1 features in Visual Studio (they are not enabled by default). ...

    Comments are closed.0.NETasynchronousBen Williams
    Debugging .NET core with SOS everywhere
    Debugging .NET core with SOS everywhere
    May 2, 2017 May 2, 2017 05/2/17
    Developer Support
    Get some insight into debugging .NET code on non-Windows operating systems with this post from Premier Developer consultants Gustavo Varo and Ben Williams. I have been working more and more with .NET Core and one question I keep getting from our customers and partners is about the debugging experience when using operating systems other ...

    2.NET CoreBen Williamsdebugging
    An alternative to ConfigureAwait(false) everywhere
    An alternative to ConfigureAwait(false) everywhere
    March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
    Pam Lahoud
    In his latest blog post, Premier Developer consultant Ben Williams brings us this article on asynchronous code. One of the general recommendations you may often read is to use ConfigureAwait(false) in library code. This is so that when the library is used, it does not block the synchronization context in use by the application (e.g. the UI ...

    Comments are closed.0asynchronousBen Williams
    Tasks are (still) not threads and async is not parallel
    Tasks are (still) not threads and async is not parallel
    September 29, 2015 Sep 29, 2015 09/29/15
    Pam Lahoud
    Premier Developer consultant Ben Williams recently had the honor of having one of his blog posts reposted to Wintellect’s Dev Center as a guest post.  Here’s a blurb from that post, be sure to head over to Ben’s blog to check out the full technical deep-dive and download his sample WPF application. I talk to a lot of developers who...

    Comments are closed.0.NETasynchronousBen Williams
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