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Related Posts: Last week we talked about changes under the covers, redesigns in System.Threading.Parallel, and using CancellationTokens.  So what else is new in TPL for Beta 1?  In this post, we’ll cover the new TaskFactory class, the plight of Future<T> (Task<TResult>), and TaskCompletionSource<TResult>.TaskFacto...

In an effort to release simple, streamlined APIs, we spend a lot of time poring over every aspect of our types.One of the types that we know is getting used a lot both internally and externally is LazyInit<T>.  One of LazyInit<T>’s constructors takes in a LazyInitMode enum which allows you to initialize a value in one of thre...

Related Posts: The Task Parallel Library (TPL) has come a long way since its inception.  Over the course of several CTPs, it has evolved to be an important and central new component in the .NET Framework.  Most recently, TPL was released as part of mscorlib.dll in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP around the October 2008 ...

 For everyone who attended MIX this year, we hope it was a lot of fun. Brandon from our team, gave a talk on "Going Inside Microsoft Silverlight: Exploring the Core CLR" at MIX09 last week. The talk covers how the desktop CLR was slimmed down to be used for Silverlight, and in the process, covers Core CLR's architecture (specif...

 Assumption: This write-up assumes that you are familiar with the managed exception handling constructs (e.g. catch, filter, fault, finally). If not, you may want to read this and also refer to the CLI specification. Managed exception handling exposes constructs to handle an exception (e.g. catch and filter blocks) and also to perform any...

A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as "I make changes in Design view but Source does not get updated" and "After certain actions designer inserts a lot of &nbsp; in the page". This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB967253/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2845 http://co...

It has been a few months since our last release of TlbImp on CodePlex. We recently released a new version of TlbImp – please visit the Codeplex page for this tool to find out more. In this release, we’ve introduced two major features: 1. Ruled-based customization of interop assemblies 2. TlbImp regression test tool Ruled-based customization of int...

Juan Rivera from JCX Software and the developer of VS.PHP has added support for Silverlight 3.  If you’re a PHP developer this is very cool news.VS.PHP is a plug-in for Visual Studio that brings the rich development environment of Visual Studio to PHP.  In addition to the great intellisense Visual Studio provides for JScript, CSS, H...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Live.  You can download it right now here.  Also check out Phil Haack’s post on the release.  If you are new to MVC, please check out our previous posts for more information and links to many useful blogs and resources.  Alternatively, check out the official site for tutorials, videos, and more.MSDN ...