Reactive Extensions Team Blog

After the release of Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0 SP1 and Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) v1.0 late last year, we’ve been quite busy preparing the next big milestone of the product: Reactive Extensions v2.0 Beta . In this blog post, we’ll outline...

Build 1.0.2787.0 10/28/2010 Rx.NET Added XNA 4.0 Xbox 360 support. Added Windows Phone 7 support. Fixed xna crash in CurrentThreadScheduler. Removed conflict of EnumerableEx.Zip and Enumerable.Zip on Silverlight 4. Fixed ForkJoin bug on empty source....

Three months after the release of Reactive Extensions v2.0 Beta , we’re happy to announce the availability of our next milestone build for the Rx v2.0 product cycle! Today, we released the Release Candidate (RC) build to the Download Center and NuGet...

Today, we’re extremely pleased to announce the availability of Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) v2.0 RTM , aligned with the availability of Visual Studio 2012 RTM and Windows 8 RTM for MSDN subscribers. This is a major milestone for the Rx project and...

Finally, the long wait is over. Rx is available on DevLabs ! What is Rx? Rx is a .NET Library that allows programmers to write succinct declarative code to orchestrate and coordinate asynchronous and event-based programs based on familiar .NET...

We're happy to announce the first official releases of Reactive Extensions v1.0 Stable and v1.1 Experimental: Reactive Extensions v1.0.10621 Stable Release This is our official v1.0 product release. How exciting is that? Reactive Extensions...

Hi folks, Yesterday, we released two hands-on labs on Rx both for .NET and for JS. The goal of those two documents is to present the reader with a gentle introduction into the subject, based on a series of incremental samples. This is based on a series...

Lately, we’ve been talking to a lot of customers (both internally and externally) on their use of Rx. Quite often, meetings like these end up explaining various concepts in Rx, ranging from observable sequences, over subjects, to … schedulers. Talking...

We just released the Reactive Extension Design Guidelines. A document full with info on consuming and producing observable streams. Please let us know what you think of the document and the guidelines. Which guidelines do you love, hate, find confusing...

People have asked about these three API on the Rx forum and to do these APIs justice, I thought I should write up a blog post explaining the reasoning behind these. A world without Synchronization Let’s assume Rx didn’t use a SynchronizationContext to...

Hot on the heels of the announcement of the availability of the Reactive Extensions for .NET v2.0 RTM, we are pleased to announce the release of the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) v2.0 RTM .  This release, just as in previous releases...

Today we released a downloadable version of Rx for Windows Phone 7 . This might sound confusing as Rx already ships in the ROM of Windows Phone 7 .  Why have two separate releases? Let’s look at the pros and cons for both: Embedded release Pros:...

We're pleased to announce the availability of the 6/5/2011 releases of the Reactive Extensions (Rx) for .NET. Stable release - Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10605 , also available on NuGet (search for packages with prefix Rx-) Experimental release...

With the release of Reactive Extensions RC1, we are now in the final stages of preparing for our first official release on the .NET Framework and Silverlight as well as our out-of-band release for Windows Phone. We have told you that documentation would...

To follow up on our announcement of releasing Rx 2.1 , we'd like to let you know what changed in this release. We have updated the Reactive Extensions for .NET, primarily to re-enable Windows Phone 8 support. We ran into a bug with a partner team's...

We’re proud to announce the availability of Reactive Extensions for Javascript. This port brings the power of Reactive programming to JavaScript. It allows you to use the Rx combinators in JavaScript and it does this in a download size of less than 7Kb...

The Rx team has received a lot of questions about Rx and concurrency, thread-affinity, timers and performance. In this video, Wes explains the major changes in the latest release of Rx. These changes drastically improve the user experience. Your feedback...

The NuGet team has announced the availability of NuGet 1.7 today. One cool thing about this new release is the improved “Manage NuGet Packages” dialog with the option to display prerelease packages . In our previous blog post on the availability of Rx...

Build 1.0.2838.0 12/24/2010 – Rx Christmas Release 2010 Rx.NET New: support for joins in Rx. This includes two new operators, Join and GroupJoin, which have query expression support too: This work will be covered on Channel 9 in much more detail. We’ll...

Last week, an update for Rx v2.0 was released, adding support for Windows Phone 8.  Unfortunately, an issue was discovered with the enhanced strong name signing used for the portable core assemblies of Rx, preventing the binaries from loading correctly...

Today's installment of Reactive Extensions API talks about the Retry operator Watch the video here Previous Reactive Extensions API in depth videos: Repeat Hot and Cold Observables Concat, Catch and OnErrorResumeNext CombineLatest More Zip Zip Merge Contract...

As of today’s release, Rx packages are avaiable on NuPack. To get the packages, install the latest NuPack build and search for Rx Let us know what you think of this new distribution channel on the Rx forum

Today, we released a new version of Reactive Extensions for .NET. This new version is a good reason to end the long video silence on C9. Here, Wes, Bart, and Jeff discuss the various changes in this release, why it took so long, and what we have been...

As the team loves to talk and talk about Rx, we decided to produce some videos ourselves describing the various Rx API. Today we kick off the series with an introduction video by Wes Dyer, Erik Meijer and Jeffrey van Gogh Please bare with us as we're...

Today's installment of Reactive Extensions API in depth talks about a graphical method called "Marble Diagrams" that helps to reason about Rx API. We use these "Marble Diagrams" to describe how the Rx Select and Where operators behave. Watch the video...