dotnetpro 10/2010 – some notes on useful links and further reading

Parallel Programming in C#

1. Free eBook: www.dotnetpro.de/SL1010News3
2. The Task class: use like

      1: Task.Factory

      2:     .StartNew(() => {

      3:         var result = new MyCustomObject();

      4:         // do something and return something

      5:         return result;

      6:     })

      7:     .ContinueWith(res => {

      8:         // res is of type MyCustomObject here

      9:         res.DoSomethingElse();

     10:     });

      1: var someInput = ...

      2: var task = new Task(() => MyAction(input));

      3: // Changes to someInput will still be reflected within MyAction()!

      4: task.Start();

      5: Assert.That(myTask.Result.GetType(),       /* waits for execution of task */

      6:             Is.EqualTo(typeof(double)));   /* returns true */

NHibernate 3.0.0

http://nhforge.org

1. Lazy Loading of columns
2. HQL Language Service for Visual Studio – an Add-In for syntax highlighting of NH HQL query code
3. Type safe querying using the Criteria API – makes the LambdaExtensions obsolete

FastSharp 2.0

Quickly execute pieces of C# code from inside a text editor: www.dotnetpro.de/SL1010News7

HTML5 Canvas

easier to use JavaScript API: canto.js

ReSharper

Live Templates: code generation beyond Visual Studio

Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 Application Development

Application Quality Cookbook 1.8: www.dotnetpro.de/SL1010News4