Last week, I gave a talk on asynchronous programming in F# at QCon London. I used the one hour slot to implement a Social Rectangle Drawing App - an application that showed the importance of asynchronous workflows on both client-side and server-side.

In this edition we are going to be doing a taste test, C# vs F#. Oh yeah, if you quickly glanced at the title you may have thought this

In this edition we are going to be doing a taste test, C# vs F#. Oh yeah, if you quickly glanced at the title you may have thought this was a recipe for black scones, as interesting and tasty as that may be, unfortunately its going to be finance related.[...]

It’s possible to open several projects in the vs2010 express edition. This means that it can be a viable alternative to monodevelop for doing .net programming at home. Exciting news!

At a few points in my career I’ve worked in tech support.  It’s an experience I heartily recommend to every developer.  Every developer should spend at least a month or two supporting software because it helps you to understand the sorts of issues our tec[...]

Make sure that the environment variable LANG is set to “us_EN.UTF-8”. Otherwise you might get the translated versions…

The first stable release of the Silverlight 5 Multi-Window Controls project is now available on CodePlex which brings external window support to the ChildWindow and ContextMenu. So what’s next if anything? I came across Tim Heur’s Silverlight Floatable[...]

A while I ago I blogged about what had changed under the hood of async between the CTP and the VS11 Preview. Well, now that the VS11 Beta is out, it's time to do it all again... Note that the code in this post is in the Eduasync codebase, under a differe[...]

after banging my head against the wall because the test runner did not find my tests I finally found the reason: you have to install additional plugins into VS11 (beta). And it seems like they are not part of the … Continue reading →