Contents tagged with Techdays
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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).
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C# 4.0: Named And Optional Arguments
As part of the co-evolution effort of C# and Visual Basic, C# 4.0 introduces Named and Optional Arguments.
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C# 4.0: Covariance And Contravariance In Generics Made Easy
In my last post, I went through what is variance in .NET 4.0 and C# 4.0 in a rather theoretical way.
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C# 4.0: Covariance And Contravariance In Generics
C# 4.0 (and .NET 4.0) introduced covariance and contravariance to generic interfaces and delegates. But what is this variance thing?
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The Evolution Of C#
The first release of C# (C# 1.0) was all about building a new language for managed code that appealed, mostly, to C++ and Java programmers. -
Visual Studio: Setting Up The Current Project And Run
When I’m building a demo solution I usually have several projects to demo different features.
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Upgrading the WCSF EventBroker Extension to WCSF 2.0
While preparing the demos for my session at TechDays Portugal 2008, I've noticed some changes in the Web Client Software Factory 2.0 that prevented the EventBroker Extension from compiling and running.