Posts Tagged ‘.net 4’

Observing .NET with IObservable

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 [...]


Content Delivery Network - Microsoft AJAX Joins In

Scenario: You request a website that utilizes Yahoo’s User Interface code library by embedding the javascript file http://yui.yahooapis.com/3.0.0/build/yui/yui-min.js in a web page, your browser’s request searches through a network for the server that hosts the file, Yahoo’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) responds as the host and routes your request for the file to the nearest [...]


Beta 2: .NET 4, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2010

Update 2009-11-30: What’s New in the .NET Framework Version 4
Released yesterday to MSDN subscribers and to the general public tomorrow… WOW! Read the updates on MSDN documentation for this release and you will be blown away. The number of features is tremendous.


Microsoft Code Contracts and Specifications

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 [...]