Announcing the Official Release of Rx! (Channel 9)

Announcing the Official Release of Rx!

Posted: Jun 29, 2011 at 9:00 AM

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You've learned a lot about Rx (Reactive Extensions) on C9 over the years. You've seen Rx go from incubation stage to DevLabs project to having a happy home on the MSDN Data Developer Center.

Today, we're very pleased to announce that Rx is now officially official with the final V1 release!

Rx V1 will ship as a stable release with professionally-written technical documentation, developer samples and...ready? Product support!! Smiley

Since Rx is written and maintained by Erik Meijer's team you can imagine that there will continue to be innovation and experimentation at a quick pace. The Rx cutting edge will manifest itself as experimental releases. The real-world-developer-tested innovations in the experimental releases will most likely find their way into subsequent stable releases, which are the bits you'll want to build your event stream processing empire on top of. Smiley

The experimental releases will allow you to see and touch where the technology is heading, as well as help the team go in the right direction, as you have already done. Without developers using Rx in the real world and providing feedback to the Rx team, it is unlikely that Rx would be in the shape that it is today. Thank you!!

Here, I catch up with Rx developers Wes Dyer and Bart De Smet to get more information (and to see if I can get Wes and Bart writing on the whiteboard at the same time). Tune in,

Congratulations to the Rx team!!

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Download Rx V1:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26649 (or using NuGet)

Rx Documentation:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221892 (conceptual)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221873 (reference)

Rx Workshop:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Rx-Workshop/Rx-Workshop-Introduction
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Rx-Workshop/Rx-Workshop-Event-Processing
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Rx-Workshop/Rx-Workshop-Observables-versus-Events
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Rx-Workshop/Rx-Workshop-Unified-Programming-Model
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Rx-Workshop/Rx-Workshop-Writing-Queries
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Rx-Workshop/Rx-Workshop-Schedulers

Rx Forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/rx/threads

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Congrats with the release!

Great to see a lot of content about Rx and I'm looking forward to try and use it. It's amazing to know just how little you see about the new programming concepts in the regular curriculum in schools. If C# is teached at a school (and thats a big if) it's still teached in the same way Java is , and compaired to java all the time. But the huge 'new' things like LINQ , Lamdas's , Nomads, co- and contravarience are missing. And if you have never heard of this new stuff people will keep writing algorithms and code the old way, when it might have been more easy to fix with LINQ for example.

You are providing a lot of stuff to make programming easier and make a developper more productive. I know we still need to know the basics and logical flow, but we also need to learn to use the new stuff to show what is possible.

Again, congrats on the release! Time to dive deep!

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felix9 the cat that walked by itself

Jun 29, 2011 at 9:56 AM

Congrats !
vesuvius Count Orlock

Jun 29, 2011 at 10:42 AM

What happened to IQbservable?
bdesmet Bart De Smet [MSFT::SQL::CloudProgrammability::Rx]

Jun 29, 2011 at 11:04 AM

@vesuvius: Still there, in the System.Reactive.Providers assembly. On NuGet, use the Rx-Providers package.
wkempf

Jun 29, 2011 at 11:27 AM

What about Tasks for 2008?
aL_ Kinect ftw

Jun 29, 2011 at 12:03 PM

yay :
now if only we can convince anders to allow extension methods on events and all will be well
Maddus Mattus Maddus on C9, Is often controversial, But fun none-the-less -evildictaitor

Jun 29, 2011 at 12:42 PM

w00t!
bdesmet Bart De Smet [MSFT::SQL::CloudProgrammability::Rx]

Jun 29, 2011 at 2:16 PM

@wkempf: You can still get System.Threading.dll from old releases (prior to 1.0.10425) and use it, but keep in mind the bits are provided as-is with no support.
Richard.Hein Stay on Target

Jun 29, 2011 at 3:46 PM

Hey, congrats to the Rx team. Glad to see this milestone reached. Now it begins ...
CKurt while( ( !succeed=try() ) ) { }

Jun 30, 2011 at 4:10 AM

Congrats with the release!
Great to see a lot of content about Rx and I'm looking forward to try and use it. It's amazing to know just how little you see about the new programming concepts in the regular curriculum in schools. If C# is teached at a school (and thats a big if) it's still teached in the same way Java is , and compaired to java all the time. But the huge 'new' things like LINQ , Lamdas's , Nomads, co- and contravarience are missing. And if you have never heard of this new stuff people will keep writing algorithms and code the old way, when it might have been more easy to fix with LINQ for example.
You are providing a lot of stuff to make programming easier and make a developper more productive. I know we still need to know the basics and logical flow, but we also need to learn to use the new stuff to show what is possible.
Again, congrats on the release! Time to dive deep!
George_Curelet_Balan

Jun 30, 2011 at 9:13 AM

Congrats to all involved with Rx, a living proof project of the power of mathematics, theoretical computer science and practical software engineering used to simplify and advance software development!
vborovikov makes software since 1849

Jun 30, 2011 at 10:01 AM

Thanks for the docs on MSDN!
HasanKhan

Jun 30, 2011 at 8:34 PM

Congrats...
Zura

Jun 30, 2011 at 11:37 PM

Congrats!

Off-topic:
Charles, any news regarding new video lectures (about category theory) from Erik? :)

Zura
Charles Welcome Change

Jul 02, 2011 at 10:22 AM

1 day ago
Congrats!

Off-topic:
Charles, any news regarding new video lectures (about category theory) from Erik?

Zura
Hi Zura,
Erik is tremendously busy these days and all of his C9 stuff (there was much planned and still much planned) has been put on hold until he comes up for air. As you know, Erik is an engineer first and foremost and he and team are doing some challening/amazing work these days that requires all of Erik's time. I know he misses C9 and feels bad that he can't spend time with us, but he'll show up on C9 again later this summer or fall. As for the CT lecture series, we are unable to commit to a date for that.
C

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