Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman introduced the concept of IObservable for .NET in their Channel 9 video “Expert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer - Inside the .NET Reactive Framework (Rx)”, which is getting included in .NET version 4. .NET events present a number of challenges to developers. Weak event managers, like the Composite [...]
Although Team Foundation Server 2010 is right around the corner, most teams are barely up-to-speed with the capabilities of TFS. Because the “Basic” edition of TFS 2010 is set to finally replace Visual SourceSafe, it will be paramount for teams to make the appropriate training investments for their people. That said, it is too [...]
Update 2009-11-30: MSDN Documentation for .NET Framework Version 4
All developers write code with input expectations, code assumptions, and output guarantees (we’ll refer to these as code contracts). My presentation Microsoft Code Contracts - Explicit Expectations helps introduce developers to a new framework available to make those code contracts explicit. The appropriately named project, Microsoft Code Contracts, will ship bundled with [...]
A couple of Sogetians and I attended Spark 2009 at Arizona State University today sponsored by CXO Network and the W.P. Carey School of Business. For companies, the event was an opportunity to represent themselves with senior technical staff (the CIO, Directors, and also more general senior staff) to present their company, their company’s opportunities, and [...]
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