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Archive for November, 2007

For those of you who can’t view video because you are at work (and are probably still using Visual Studio 2002 or 2003) I’ve included the relevant text below.

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I’ve been interested in parallel computing practically since I started 20 years ago.  I even theorized about how one might use web services to achieve a distributed parallel computer.  But, an official Parallel platform for .NET from Microsoft?!

This  is VERY cool and has all kinds of potential.  Especially if this can mature into something along the lines of the Linux Beowulf project.

Somasegar’s WebLog : Parallel Extensions to the .NET FX CTP

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I think this may be the last operator that I really miss in VB from my curly brace language experience.  Although, I have to admit, I wouldn’t have missed it all that much if they never added it.  There just isn’t a whole lot of use for it.

However, the Ternary operator is a REALLY nice feature to have available to you when you do need it.  It’s another one of those language features that falls under, “Just because it is there doesn’t mean you have to use it.”

If you’ve ever run into a situation where you just need a simple evaluation and assign a variable based on it.  Like this: Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday we looked at the new var keyword in CSharp.  This makes CSharp variable declaration similar to VB.  After all, they’ve had the DIM keyword for years which essentially does the same thing.

Today, we’re going to look at object initializers, which have been added to both CSharp and VB.

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There have been several new features added to the CSharp language that will significantly reduce the amount of code that ends up in our source files.  It will not significantly reduce the amount of code that we have to write.

One of those language features is the ability to create properties, which we looked at last week.

Another of those features is the new var keyword.

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