About code. Mostly on C++
Microsoft has made available a first beta version of an experimental version of .NET 4.0, called .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 Enabled for Software Transactional Memory v1.0. Since that is quite a long name, the short one is STM.NET. This is a special version of .NET 4.0 that enables software transactional memory for C#. It … Read more
.NET allows you to expose components as COM and consume them from unmanaged code. There are many references on how to this (and you can only start with MSDN), and I will not talk about that part. What I want to explain here is something different. Suppose you have this interface: [Guid(“2F8433FE-4771-4037-B6B2-ED5F6585ED04”)] [InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIDispatch)] public interface … Read more
In a recent post I wrote about Code Contracts in .NET. Now you can find a more detailed article on this topic at sharparena.com. In this article I’m providing more information and examples on: pre-conditions post-conditions object invariants asserts and assumptions quantifiers In additions, you should check the official user documentation, which can be found … Read more
Visual Studio 2010 has support for code contracts that allow to express pre-, post-conditions and invariants to your .NET code. Let’ say you want to create a function to return a random value in a range. This could look like it: class Program { Random rng = new Random(); public int GetRandom(int min, int max) … Read more
Last week Microsoft published on DevLabs a .NET language for building parallel applications, called Axum, and earlier known as Maestro. This new language is build on the architecture of the web, on the principles of isolation, message-passing, fault-tolerance, loose-coupling. It is said to have a more succinct syntax than Erlang, and have the isolation advantage … Read more
In perioada 6-8 aprilie va avea loc la Bucuresti la sediul Uzinexport un training de Introducere in .NET, sponsorizat de Microsoft Romania. Dupa cum explica Zoli pe blogul sau, acest training este dedicat programatorilor începatori, juniorilor din firmele de software, programatorilor de FoxPro, Visual Basic, Java, dar si programatorilor care nu au reusit sa treaca … Read more
LINQ to SQL is an API that allows querying relational databases. The samples in this post are based on the concepts of: Entity classes (which are instances of Entity Types). Such a class is a regular .NET class that is decorated with the attribute Table and its properties and fields with the attribute Column DataContext, … Read more
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