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The Sela Developer Practice (SDP) took place this week at the Crown-Plaza hotel in Tel-Aviv with many presentations on various topics, all of which given by Sela’s experts. Sasha and I gave two presentations on Tuesday – one on “Parallel Programming with .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010” and an additional one on “Building Workflow Services with WF 4.0 and WCF 4.0”. Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 In this presentation Sasha and I presented the new Parallel Programming paradigms...
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...
In this PDC session by Sebastian Burckhardt from Microsoft Research two prototype tools were introduced – Cuzz & FeatherLite . Cuzz – A Tool for Concurrency Fuzzing Imagine a situation in which you have a test which doesn’t always pass or an unpredictable behavior which occurs only sometimes . What do you usually do? Stress tests. What else can you possibly do? Use Cuzz. How do you use Cuzz? You inject the Cuzz DLL into your application binary with a simple command line tool, and what it does...
In their presentation at the PDC “Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp” pre-conference, Mark Russinovich and Arun Kishan highlighted some of the main changes in the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 kernel. I’ll highlight some of these changes below. Note that many of these changes were alsoexplained in Alon’s session at the Windows 7 User Group, and would also be reviewed at the upcoming SDP in his lecture. Many Core Platform Support Windows Server 2008 R2 now supports 256 logical processors, as opposed...
Hi, my name is Eran Stiller. No, I am not related to Ben Stiller or Jerry Stiller , although I’m quite used to people asking... I am a senior software consultant at Sela Group , consulting on software challenges regarding the development, design and architecture of both .NET and native Win32 applications. My interests include a wide array of technologies which constantly change over time as I learn newer ones. Currently my main focus lies on server side technologies such as WCF, WF, WF Services,...