Contents tagged with MSDN
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Prism For Windows Runtime Is Out
Prism for the Windows Runtime and the associated AdventureWorks Shopper reference implementation is now available on the Windows Dev Center.
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Developing Multi-tenant Applications for the Cloud, 3rd Edition
Microsoft Patterns & Practices has recently released Developing Multi-tenant Applications for the Cloud, 3rd Edition. -
Feedback Requested: Usability Of The Remarks Section In Reference Topics
Microsoft is planning to expand the Remarks section of selected types in the .NET Framework Class Library to provide detailed usage information and code examples. (For an example, see the Remarks section for the System.String class.) In the current design, the Remarks section isn’t easily discoverable, because member tables take up a lot of screen real estate.
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Windows 8 SDK Customer Satisfaction Survey
Windows 8 introduces a number of innovations in the way information is delivered to developers. Microsoft would like to know how well these are working for you, and where they can make further changes to improve your experience.
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Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 RC
Microsoft Patterns & Practices has released a book with guidance on Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 RC. -
Hydrating Objects With Expression Trees - Part III
To finalize this series on object hydration, I’ll show some performance comparisons between the different methods of hydrating objects.
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TechDays 2010: What’s New On C# 4.0
I would like to thank those that attended my session at TechDays 2010 and I hope that I was able to pass the message of what’s new on C#.
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C# 4.0: COM Interop Improvements
Dynamic resolution as well as named and optional arguments greatly improve the experience of interoperating with COM APIs such as Office Automation Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs). But, in order to alleviate even more COM Interop development, a few COM-specific features were also added to C# 4.0.
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C# 4.0: Dynamic Programming
The major feature of C# 4.0 is dynamic programming. Not just dynamic typing, but dynamic in broader sense, which means talking to anything that is not statically typed to be a .NET object.
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C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments
Like I mentioned in my last post, exposing publicly methods with optional arguments is a bad practice (that’s why C# has resisted to having it, until now).