Entries tagged with .net 4 - Channel 9

What's different about the 3 versions of Rx? Part 2: .NET 4

Jeffrey van Gogh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:53:00 GMT

Yesterday we released Reactive Extensions for .NET 3.5 SP1, Silverlight 3 and .NET 4 Beta 2. In this 3 part video, I'll go over the small differences in each of the three releases.

Yesterday I talked about Silverlight 3 in part one.

Today I'll focus on .NET 4 Beta 2.

MSDN Flash Podcast 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET 4, Oslo and more

Eric Nelson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:30:00 GMT

This podcast accompanies the October 8th edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter.

It is an interview with Paul Jackson which is meant to be about the article he wrote on Memory Mapped Files in .NET Framework 4.0 but tends to go off in different directions – but we both certainly enjoyed doing it :-) I was interested to hear how he was getting on with Oslo and why he was revisiting ASP.NET after many years of focus on XAML.

Show Notes:

WebsiteSpark Program
Microsoft Ajax CDN
Web Platform Installer Version 2
Web Toolkits series of screencasts
Casestudy on F#
Poll How many lines of code did you write yesterday?
Memory Mapped File .NET 4.0 preliminary MSDN documentation
Microsoft Oslo
Book Pro ASP.NET MVC by Steven Sanderson
Book Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (with nerddinner sample) and the free chapter (pdf) from Scott Guthrie

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MSDN Flash Podcast 007 – Mike Ormond discusses ASP.NET 4.0

Eric Nelson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:10:00 GMT

This podcasts accompanies the UK MSDN Flash newsletter. The normal format of the podcast is a few minutes summarising the contents of the newsletter and then a 20 to 30 minute interview with the author of the technical article which appears in the newsletter.

The podcasts were originally published on the blog of the editor of the Flash, Eric Nelson but Channel 9 could potentially make a much better home.

This podcast accompanies the August 12th, 2009 edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It includes an interview with Mike Ormond discussing the new stuff in ASP.NET 4.0 plus an opportunity to ask Mike “Which are you? MVC or WebForms?”. Other areas discussed in the intro section include the RTM of Windows 7, the UK launch event of Expression 3 and Silverlight 3 plus the results of the poll of how developers scored in the Joel test.

Show Notes:

Silverlight 3 LOB applications in the UK
Silverlight 3 training videos from Mike Taulty and others
Sketchflow and Blend 3 session from MIX earlier in the year
Tool Shed: Episode #4
Building Testable ASP.NET MVC Applications
New development platform Kodu ... for your children on their Xbox 360!
UK SOA/BPM User Group
ASP.NET 4.0 Whitepaper
+ lots more links in the original newsletter

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VS2010 Parallel Computing Features Tour

Daniel Moth — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:14:00 GMT

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth

Introduction:

In Visual Studio 2010, the Parallel Computing team has delivered APIs and tools for developers wanting to build applications that take advantage of multiple cores. This video provides a glimpse on the managed APIs, debugging windows and profiler support.

For more on the managed APIs, please start on the team's blog. For more on profiler start on that team's blog. For more on Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks please start on my blog post on Parallel Debugging.

Intertouch Media Technologies innovates on WPF and Multitouch at BizSpark Incubation Week

John O'Donnell — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:53:00 GMT

Larry Gregory talked with David Marra and James Cadd from Intertouch Media Technologies at a recent BizSpark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain

Intertouch Media delivers platforms to enable companies to build very compelling interactive systems such as airport kiosks that take advantage of Windows 7 and Multitouch. In addition their solution leverages inertia in their controls so the user really feels compelled to interact with the display.

Do not miss the demo which starts at time index 6:00 minutes as they inertia in their controls and also a Bing integration.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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deCast - Introducing parallelism into your applications

Rob Bagby — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:20:00 GMT

The trend in hardware has shifted from scaling up (faster processors) to scaling out (more processors). In order for our applications to take advantage of these additional processing power, we need to introduce parallelism into our applications. In this screencast, Rob Bagby illustrates 3 approaches you can take when introducing parallelism to your applications: 1) Fine-grained parallelism, 2) Structured parallelism and 3) PLINQ. The approach Rob takes is to start with an a sequential application and parallelize it using each of the 3 approaches.
You can read Rob's blog post on Introducing parallelism into your applications and download the sample code here.

10-4 Episode 27: Server-Driven Paging with ADO.NET Data Services

Jonathan Carter — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:59:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we discuss a new feature coming in the next release of ADO.NET Data Services: server-driven paging. This allows you to constrain the size of result sets that can be requested by clients, eliminating potentially problematic scenarios. In addition, clients can also now request the total count of an entity set, without having to retrieve its data in entirety.

ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 CTP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3e3d4eaf-227b-4ad3-ad0d-3613db8aa9df&displaylang=en

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

Visual Studio Topic Area on Channel 9:
http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio

Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC:
http://tinyurl.com/GetCTP

10-4! Over and out!

Rich Client Applications and Windows 7 for Developers

Nigel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:18:00 GMT

Windows 7 contains many new features for developers that allow you to create very rich applications for your users, including the ability to touch-enable your own applications. This session will cover how you can take advantage of new Windows 7 features using .NET 3.5 to build rich client applications and we’ll also take a look at what’s coming in .NET 4.0. Presented by ISV Developer Advisor, Mike Zeff (http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezeff)

This session was delivered as part of the NZ MSDN Unplugged events http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/unplugged/msdn-may09.mspx

10-4 Episode 22: Simplifying Data-Driven Web Applications

Jonathan Carter — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:24:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, we discuss how the development of data-driven web applications has evolved in ASP.NET and how in the .NET Framework 4 it becomes even easier. Whether you're working on a new or existing application, getting your UI to light up model-level metadata/validation becomes as simple as a single line of code.

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

Visual Studio Topic Area on Channel 9:
http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio

Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC:
http://tinyurl.com/GetCTP

10-4! Over and out!

Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 - Inside the Thread Pool

Charles — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:46:00 GMT

General purpose thread pools are more complicated to get right than you may think. In CLR 4 (the next version of the VM that powers .NET), the thread pool has made some significant advances in performance and support for concurrency and parallelism.

Since V1, .NET programmers have been afforded the luxury of an automatic queue-dequeue-execute-from-the-queue thread management infrastructure inside the CLR. This is .NET's Thread Pool.

As expected, the CLR's thread pool has improved with each iteration of the CLR (hey, V1 was, well, V1...). The goal has always been efficient, reliable, performant thread management. With CLR 4, the team that designs and implements the thread pool, have made some truly compelling changes, which should add up to a very solid thread pool shipping with CLR 4. One of the big changes is the addition of thread-stealing algorithms to support concurrency and parallelism. Indeed, CLR 4 has native support for the Parallel Computing Platform's Parallel Extensions for .NET. What does this mean, exactly? How does it work, exactly? What else is new in CLR 4's thread pool?

Meet developer Eric Eilebrecht and program manager Erika Parsons. Eric helped implement the thread pool (he's been doing this for multiple versions, actually). Erika, as PMs do, helped design the thread pool and ensured that the design and implementation meets the needs expressed by customers who rely on the thread pool.

Tune in. Lots to learn. You'll be impressed both by the enhancements and direction set forth for the future in CLR 4's thread pool.

Eric has some great blog posts on the new addtions to the thread pool in CLR 4 that will be very useful for expanding on the knowledge you gain from this conversation.

.NET 4, VS 2010 and Office: New Features in VS 2010 for Developers

John Wiese — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:00:00 GMT

Now that .NET 4 and VS 2010 are out, at least in Beta, I thought it would be a good time to show off some of the new features that are applicable to Office development. In this second (see the first one here) screencast I will cover a new feature of Visual Studio 2010 for Office PIA (Primary Interop Assembly) references. You can now Embed the needed references directly into your executable so there is no longer a need for the PIAs to be on the client machine!

.NET 4, VS 2010 and Office: New Features in .NET 4 for Office Developers

John Wiese — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:18:00 GMT

Now that .NET 4 and VS 2010 are out, at least in Beta, I thought it would be a good time to show off some of the new features that are applicable to Office development. In this first screencast I will cover something new to C# specifically, optional paramters, as well as Lambda expressions.

Look for my next screencast tomorrow on removing the PIA dependency from your distribution!

Inside .NET 4: Meet the BCL Team

Charles — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:13:00 GMT

Much of what you can do with .NET, from a compositional perspective, is enabled by the vast functionality housed in .NET's huge base class libraries (in fact, the BCL is what provides all the incredibly default(part of the .NET framework) useful objects you use to paint your binary vision). Who are some of the folks who think up and write the BCL? Who tests the BCL to ensure these libraries do what they claim to do and in a performant, reliable and predictable way? What are some of the innovations in the BCL that ships as part of Visual Studio 2010? Tune in and find out the who, what and why behind BCL 4.

Members of the BCL team in this interview:

Josh Free
Brian Grunkemeyer
Matt Ellis
Justin Van Patten
Melitta Andersen
Matthew Greig
Kim Hamilton
Katy King

Enjoy!