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yield is a new contextual keyword introduced to C# 2.0, vital for lazy evaluation and the performance of queries in LINQ. Being a contextual keyword means that yield can be used as a variable name in C# without any problem. When put before return it becomes a keyword. yield allows one enumerable class to be … Read more
Have you ever wondered how many words the Visual Studio IDE has? Or how many words are in the documentation? Well, according to Fabrice Fonk from the MSDN DevWiki project, the numbers are: 1 million words for the IDE over 50 million words in the documentation You can hear it from himself in this video.
In my last post about LINQ I shown you an example about how to use the language integrated query to select information about directories. In this post I’ll get more into the syntax and show you something about the functional querying style. My examples will focus on displaying information about UEFA Champions Leage winners. Thus, … Read more
Suppose you have a class foo like this: class foo { public: int X; int Y; int Z; foo(int x = 0, int y = 0, int z = 0): X(x), Y(y), Z(z) {} }; And you have a variable f(1, 2, 3) what you watch in your Watch window. The window looks like this: … Read more
A collegue of mine pointed to me today a chapter from a book called “The UNIX-HATERS Handbook”, published by IDG Books Worldwide Inc. in 1994 (ISBN 1-56884-203-1). One of the latest chapters is called “Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax”. In this chapter the authors say that Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan addmited … Read more
MFC in Orcas comes with several important changes, such as support for Vista specific command button and split button. I have put together a small demo application displaying a command button with the tex Say “Hello Vista” and the note “Click on this button to show a “Hello Vista” message!”. The command button is still … Read more
Google seems to take the April’s Fool Day very seriously. 😉 They did two practical jokes, and I’m wondering how many people did fall for it. First, was the Toilet Internet Service Provider, or TiSP. Yes that was a practical joke, of course. 🙂 Second, they posted this page about a new service: Gmail on … Read more
Channel9 has posted recently an interview with Sarita Bafna, a Program Manager on the VC++ Libraries team, about the new features available in Orcas (in March CTP also) for VC++. The interview is focused on 2 things: marshaling library and MFC updates. The marshaling library consists on one single API, marshal_as, for marshaling between managed … Read more
Google did it again: they just launched a free in-home wireless broadband service, called TiSP, available for now in a BETA version. According to google, TiSP is a Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP … Read more
Prashant Sridharan, Microsoft group product manager for Visual Studio, announced Monday, March 26, 2007, that Microsoft plans to release Visual Studio code-named ‘Orcas’ by the end of the year, and it also plans to release Visual Studio code-named ‘Rosario’ (the next version after ‘Orcas’) within an year timeframe after that. A CTP for ‘Rosario’ might … Read more