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C# Frequently Asked Questions
Visual Studio 11 Beta Is Here!
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8 days ago
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CSharpFAQ
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As you may have seen in Jason’s blog , Visual Studio 11 Beta is available for download today, including the Beta version of C# 5.0! If you’ve tried out the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, you already know that this is an exciting release, with...
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Implementing a Code Action using Roslyn
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1 month ago
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CSharpFAQ
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By Brian Rasmussen The Roslyn Services API makes it easy to implement extensions that detect and fix code issues directly in Visual Studio. The Roslyn Services API is available as part of the Roslyn CTP . In this post we implement a Visual Studio...
C# Frequently Asked Questions
Start Coding for the Kinect
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1 month ago
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by Alan Berman I'm intrigued by all the interesting industry apps being developed for the Kinect. I started wondering how easy it is to start programming the Kinect using Visual Studio on a PC. It is very easy to get started, especially since the Kinect...
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Roslyn CTP Introduces Interactive Code for C#
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1 month ago
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There's been a lot of posts on using the Roslyn CTP APIs for syntax trees, semantic binding, and IDE smart editor features. The Roslyn CTP also introduces a set of features for C# we refer to as "Interactive". These features won't be new to VB, but we...
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Using Async for File Access
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1 month ago
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by Alan Berman The new Async feature in Visual Studio makes it easy to code asynchronous method calls. To make synchronous code asynchronous, you can simply call an asynchronous method instead of a synchronous method and add a few keywords to the code...
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Introduction to the Roslyn Scripting API
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3 months ago
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CSharpFAQ
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by Brian Rasmussen In this post we take a look at how the Roslyn Scripting API can enable applications to evaluate code at runtime. While this has been possible since the dawn of .NET through the use of Reflection, Lightweight Code Generation, CodeDom...
C# Frequently Asked Questions
Using the Roslyn Symbol API
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3 months ago
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by Kevin Pilch-Bisson I’m back again, to move along to the next stage of the compiler pipeline, and take a look at working with Symbols in the using the Roslyn CTP . The Roslyn CTP’s symbol API provides a top-down view of all the symbols available. Before...
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Roslyn Syntax Visualizers
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3 months ago
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CSharpFAQ
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Hi All! A few weeks ago, we announced the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP . I hope many of you have had a chance to download the CTP and take it for a spin :) If you haven’t, do give it a try . To recap – in the Roslyn CTP, we are previewing a powerful...
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Using the Roslyn Syntax API
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4 months ago
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CSharpFAQ
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By Kevin Pilch-Bisson As promised back when we released the Roslyn CTP, here is the first of a series of blog posts that help explain the various parts of the Roslyn API. If you don’t have the Roslyn CTP, you can get it from our MSDN page , and install...
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Introducing the Microsoft “Roslyn” CTP
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4 months ago
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CSharpFAQ
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By Kevin Pilch-Bisson As Soma mentioned earlier, today we’ve made a Community Technology Preview (CTP) available for download ! The Roslyn project is a forward looking effort to make the wealth of language understanding that the compiler generates...
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C# 2010 Soup to Nuts Series
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6 months ago
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CSharpFAQ
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By Emily Gibson New! C# 2010 Soup to Nuts Series Explore this webcast series on Visual C# 2010 presented by Developer Evangelist, Bill Steele. Learn about class libraries, operator basics, branching and looping, and more as Bill dives deep into this fantastic...
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New Async Programming Videos
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6 months ago
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CSharpFAQ
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Some great new video's on MSDN showing how to do async programming using the Async CTP. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh378091.aspx There are different versions of video's for both VB and C#. This is a great opportunity to see the power...
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Async CTP (SP1 Refresh)
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10 months ago
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CSharpFAQ
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By Jeremy Meng Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) is available now! You are welcome to download and try it out! Thanks to the new Async feature coming in Visual Basic and C# it has never been so easy to write asynchronous code. With the newly...
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How to programmatically launch Debugger in a remote machine
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11 months ago
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CSharpFAQ
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This blog post explains how to kick off a debugger in a remote machine, programmatically. We are going to use WMI interfaces to achieve this. Use WMI, to start the debuggee process and attach a registered debugger to it using WMI. I have given a sample...
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Visual Studio is Hiring
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over 1 year ago
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CSharpFAQ
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Do you want to work on a product used by millions of developers around the world? I do! Come join me to deliver Visual Studio, the set of developer tools used across Microsoft and around the world. We have open positions available across Test, Dev and...
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Microsoft Help Viewer 1.1 - Updates Planned for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
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over 2 years ago
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Kathleen McGrath - MSFT
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Learn about the upcoming changes to the Help Viewer planned for Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Paul O’Rear, a Program Manager on the Library Experience team, describes the changes planned and demonstrates the new functionality of the viewer in an early...
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What’s Next in C#? Get Ready for Async!
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over 2 years ago
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Alexandra Rusina
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Today we announced the Visual Studio Async CTP , which shows one of the major features we plan to include in a future release of C# and Visual Basic. This feature makes development of asynchronous applications--which include everything from desktop applications...
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Converting a VBA Macro to C# 4.0
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over 2 years ago
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Alexandra Rusina
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I've talked a lot about improved COM interop in C# 4.0 and how much easier it is now to work with Office applications. This time I want to share some tips and tricks on how you can convert Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros to C# 4.0 by using...
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Blocking Collection and the Producer-Consumer Problem
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over 2 years ago
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Alexandra Rusina
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This time I want to discuss features that belong to the new System.Collections.Concurrent namespace in the.NET Framework 4. When you design parallel applications, you often need thread-safe data storage as well as some mechanism of sending messages between...
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C# 4.0 PowerPoint Presentations
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over 2 years ago
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CSharpFAQ
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Alexandru Ghiondea from the C# team created an excellent deck of slides that he used at Microsoft Days 2010 in Bulgaria. The C# team reused the deck several times for User Groups' presentations and talks. If you are planning a talk at your User Group...
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Parallel Programming: Task Cancellation
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over 2 years ago
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Alexandra Rusina
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In this post, which is the third one in my parallel programming introduction series, I want to show how you can cancel parallel operations when working with the Task Parallel Library (TPL) . I’m going to modify the program that I started in the previous...
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Parallel Programming: Task Schedulers and Synchronization Context
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over 2 years ago
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Alexandra Rusina
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Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on my previous post Parallel Programming in .NET Framework 4: Getting Started . As promised, I am continuing the series. This time, let’s go a little bit deeper and talk about task schedulers , synchronization...
C# Frequently Asked Questions
Parallel Programming in .NET Framework 4: Getting Started
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over 2 years ago
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Alexandra Rusina
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With this post I want to start a series devoted to the new parallel programming features in .NET Framework 4 and introduce you the Task Parallel Library (TPL) . Update. The list of posts in this series: Getting Started (this post) Task Schedulers and...
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New IDE Features in Visual Studio 2010 for C# Developers
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over 2 years ago
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Alexandra Rusina
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After a quick review of C# language features , let’s do the same for the IDE improvements. So, what’s in there for C# developers? Generate From Usage This feature greatly improves Visual Studio support for test-driven development (TDD) . However...
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Get Ready For C# 4.0!
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over 2 years ago
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Alexandra Rusina
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Visual Studio 2010 is here! And of course this means that C# 4.0 is also here. Let’s do a quick review of the new language features added in this release. Dynamic The dynamic keyword is a key feature of this release. It closes the gap between dynamic...
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