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Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: In this 25' exploration of the heart of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework, you will learn how to use Tasks and how they relate to TaskManagers (including creation options, cancellation and policies). Video download: Click on the image…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Assuming you understand how LINQ to objects works and assuming you know how DataSets work, this 18' video shows you how LINQ to DataSet can be used in your projects. Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Achieving "Declarative Data Parallelism" with the Parallel Extensions is achieved through Parallel LINQ (PLINQ). This 20' video explains how to parallelise your LINQ queries, how it works under the covers and how to configure it for advanced…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: The .NET incarnation of the solution to "imperative data parallelism" lives in the static Parallel class of the Parallel Extensions assembly. If that sentence confuses you a bit, watch the 20' video for the full explanation. Video download:…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: In this 20’ tour of the Parallel Extensions sample code, you will learn where to focus your energy when you explore the samples. Watch this video in order to see how Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework fit in the large picture and what goal it…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: In this 18' video you will learn from scratch how to take advantage of .NET Client Application Services. As usual, the code and links to the documentation are available from my blog. Video download: For this video, click on the image/button to play…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: In a previous video (part 1), you learnt how to get started with the Managed AddIn Framework (MAF). This video is part 2 and relies on knowledge gained in part 1. In this video you will learn how to enable a v1 AddIn to work with a v2 Host and…

The WebBrowser control is a new addition for WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1 - here we take a quick look at using it to browse a little HTML, load some HTML from a string or a stream and how we can call into browser code from WPF and vice versa.

A very quick screencast - looking at how we can put a splash screen on to a WPF 3.5 Sp1 application.

The bitmap effects from WPF 3.0 and 3.5 have changed in 3.5 Service Pack 1 in that we now get hardware acceleration and also the ability to plug in 3rd-party or custom effects by writing pixel shaders. Here, we take a quick look at using effects and building our own simple shader.