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Exception handling can be different across the .NET Framework.  Custom exceptions often augment the Exception base class.  In Task Parallel Library (TPL) Exceptions can pile-up fast; so TPL’s custom Exception, the AggregateException, includes properties developers use to handle numerous Exceptions.  Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) must often share Exceptions with a client on the other end […]

With a combined invest of over $24 million the new, so called University for developers, or  “AppCampus” program will be based out of Aalto University in Finland and is currently scheduled to open its doors next month (May 2012). The AppCampus will offer such things as facilities, coaching services, access to a comprehensive academic and […]

For Windows 8 users, this is the first time that the Windows Phone emulator works on this platform. Although Microsoft warns that emulation performance may not be optimal, developers wanting to run on Windows 8 are usually preoccupied by architecting their apps to run properly on both Windows Phone and Windows 8 than they are […]

Introduction Whenever you call action methods in an ASP.NET MVC application, by default they are executed in synchronous fashion. In order to improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your application you may wish to execute the code asynchronously. You may execute code asynchronously from two distinct places – server-side and client-side. This article discusses […]

Windows runtime is designed to provide a platform to create language independent metro style applications. Metro style applications combine the benefit of the web by extending the browser experience to the rich Windows experience. Windows runtime uses API metadata (.winmd files) and follows the ECMA-335 framework. The WinRT also provides a collection of patterns for […]

Introduction One of the new features of Visual Studio 11 is inserting C++ code snippets, i.e. easily adding already made C++ code at a specified insertion point or around a selected block. This is useful and may save programming time when it’s necessary to add commonly-used code, for example preprocessor directives (if, else, for, while, […]

Concurrent collections in .NET Framework 4.0 allow the developers to create type safe as well as thread safe collections. These collection classes form an essential part of the parallel programming feature and are available under the namespace System.Collections.Concurrent. Below are the different types of concurrent collections. 1. ConcurrentDictionary 2. ConcurrentStack 3. ConcurrentQueue 4. ConcurrentBag […]

There are a number of local and region conferences that happen on technologies. Over the years, many of these conferences have evolved and changed. Around a decade ago, I attended a multi-track, multisession conference out in Scottsdale, Arizona that had several hundred people coming together to talk about topics such as Active Server Pages. At […]

Types of Grids One of the most common misconceptions is the notion that a grid is a grid. In reality, there are several different types of grids and choosing the right one for your needs can help save substantial time and effort. Choosing the wrong grid can result in tremendous effort to make it work […]

This article explains how to use Direct3d, Input and Sound from managed code like C#, using an unmanaged C++ DLL. The DLL functions need to be declared as extern in the C++ dll extern “C” __declspec(dllexport) int InitDX(int hWnd,int w, int h) and imported in the C# application file [DllImport(“DXC”, SetLastError = true)] private static […]