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“ Microsoft XNA is a set of tools with a managed runtime environment provided by Microsoft that facilitates computer game development and management. XNA attempts to free game developers from writing "repetitive boilerplate code" [1] and to bring different aspects of game production into a single system.” ( Wikipedia ) If you ever thought about developing a computer game, if you think 3D is cool or if you’d like to develop 3D applications that can be run on the PC, XBOX360 and on a Windows...
Expert Days is an annual software development conference held by E4D in Israel. This year, for the first time, some of CodeValue’s experts have joined forces with E4D and are participating in order to give you, the attendee, the best possible value. If you are a software developer, software architect, team leader or somehow interested in the hottest available Microsoft technologies – this is definitely the conference you want to be at. The conference is held on 10/07/2011-14/07/2011, and there are...
Luckily for me, starting yesterday I had the privilege to attend Juval Lowy’s 5-day Architect’s Master Class which is held in Israel and organized by Gadi Meir’s IDAG . In this Master Class, Juval, a recognized software legend by Microsoft and one of the most well known Software Architects in the world, explains the role of the Software Architect in the Software Development industry and his position in the organization. Listening to Juval is, as always, a pleasure. I am personally happy to find out...
-- Warning! -- This post may cause the reader a slight feeling of nausea. However, remember that tough situations call for some tough actions! The Situation Imagine that you have to write some-unit tests for a class which uses an existing infrastructure, involving calls to static methods on a static class. To make things worse, this static class also holds some state which, unfortunately, gets carried around between tests without no actual ability to clear it. public static class MyInfrastructureClass...
To all of you out there who are already playing with the VS2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 bits, it was announced today that the Release Candidate version is now available for download for MSDN subscribers and would be made available to the general public on Wednesday. The RC version contains many performance improvements and bug fixes, and should be more mature than Beta 2. I can’t wait to download & install it already!
I attended the PDC breakout session named “Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic” given by Luca Bolognese, the Languages Group Program Manager. This session presented both features that exist in Visual Studio 2010 and features that would be added in future releases, however on my post I’ll concentrate on the new future directions. Compiler as a Service An interesting direction the Languages Group is taking is opening up the C# and VB compilers to custom extensions. An example of utilizing this...
In the PDC session “Manycore and .NET 4: A Match Made in Visual Studio 2010” by Stephan Toub from Microsoft’s Parallel Computing platform, he reviewed all the work done in the concurrency area for the Visual-Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 release. Parallel LINQ Parallel LINQ was not covered in this session as it is covered in a later one, though the “ AsParallel() ” extension method and “ ParallelEnumerable ” class were demonstrated. .NET 4.0 ThreadPool Many improvements were made to the .NET 4.0 ThreadPool...