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• Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1

  Jan 12, 2012 at 9:27 AM

  I was an early adopter and soon because averse to this ORM. I will have a look at it again, but hope you maintain the mantra of keeping it as easy to use and as logical as possible.

  Doing the same thing with the Linq to SQL ORM was much easier than EF, so I hope things have changed for the better.

• Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes - It's Raining Haskell

  Dec 28, 2011 at 3:43 AM

  @Charles: We will have to start calling you Santa Charles soon, with all these gifts. I thought that was it from Simon for a year or so after the YOW interview

• YOW! 2011: Joe Albahari - LINQ, LINQPad, and .NET Async (and a little Rx, too)

  Dec 23, 2011 at 11:24 AM

  .NET has some pretty amazing projects, with LINQPad being a project  "that goes to eleven"

• SPLASH 2011: Gilad Bracha - Dart, Newspeak, and More

  Nov 09, 2011 at 9:56 AM

  I had downloaded the .NET 4 BCL video at lunch, but that that will have to wait now.

• SPLASH 2011: Brendan Eich - JavaScript Today and Tomorrow

  Nov 08, 2011 at 10:45 AM

  @Charles: Guy Steele would be a steal if every you get the opportunity again.

• .NET 4.5: Vance Morrison - Performance and Memory Diagnostics

  Oct 04, 2011 at 2:53 PM

  @Richard.Hein: At the start Vance mentions that getting performance now is usually more a case of showing people how to use the tools in .NET performance-wise (which he oversees - I have watched all his videos) as they are lucky if they get 5% gains

  I still find it beyond belief that the ItemsControl performance issue is a feature in .NET 4.5. Making that unavailable for all .NET versions prior is probably too much work, but you guys should have listened when we said WPF was slow and optimized far much sooner than you did. It is one of the worst bugs that I have seen in so far as affecting take-up of a platform.

  WPF shipped with a visual for loop that was hundreds of times slower than anything else - that is the magnitude of the ItemsControl issue, the title of the thread is performance and memory issues

   

• C&B 2011 Panel: Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu and Scott Meyers - C++11

  Oct 04, 2011 at 2:36 PM

  Its good to have broadband again

• .NET 4.5: Vance Morrison - Performance and Memory Diagnostics

  Oct 03, 2011 at 11:50 AM

  I have to say that the revelation that the WPF team had got ItemsControl performance from 12000 objects that crashed a machine in 7 minutes to 200 000 in 2.3 seconds, meant that that framework was doomed to be derided as slow and is until .NET 4.5

  This is of the magnitude of a for  loop shipping in a language that takes 180 times longer than another languages. It is such a major issue, I think you should have shipped it via Windows update. Having worked on a scientific application for DNA/RNA/Protein we ended up having to use Windows forms charts because no WPF charts are of any use when dealing with a lot of data, and there is nothing my team can do to optimise our way out of this one.

   

• Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu and Herb Sutter: C++ and Beyond

  Aug 25, 2011 at 2:37 AM

  Great to finally see Scott Meyers, Andrei is very engaging as interlocutor and it's always good to see Herb.

• A Look at Windows 7 Ease of Access Features

  Aug 24, 2011 at 2:36 AM

  Windows 7 magnifying is a huge hit with my uncle who is partially sighted (almost blind) and can now use any PC with Windows 7 without having to install software that cost hundreds of pounds and was nowhere near as good.

  Epic #Win

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