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By Emily Gibson New! C# 2010 Soup to Nuts Series Explore this webcast series on Visual C# 2010 presented by Developer Evangelist, Bill Steele. Learn about class libraries, operator basics, branching and looping, and more as Bill dives deep into this …

Some great new video’s on MSDN showing how to do async programming using the Async CTP.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh378091.aspx
There are different versions of video’s for both VB and C#. This is a great opportunity to see the power of th…

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Learn about the upcoming changes to the Help Viewer planned for Visual Studio 2010 SP1.  Paul O’Rear, a Program Manager on the Library Experience team, describes the changes planned and demonstrates the new functionality of the viewer in an earl…

Today we announced the Visual Studio Async CTP, which shows one of the major features we plan to include in a future release of C# and Visual Basic. This feature makes development of asynchronous applications–which include everything from desktop appl…

I’ve talked a lot about improved COM interop in C# 4.0 and how much easier it is now to work with Office applications. This time I want to share some tips and tricks on how you can convert Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros to C# 4.0 by using O…

Working with a bit of code last week I stumbled into something unusual. I was working on something quite basic so kind of surprised when I came across a compilation error. GCC was telling me that I couldn’t access a protected member.

This is a question that can cause a thousand debates on the internet so before we get started we should make one thing clear. If the programming language is in the hands of a seasoned professional, then any one of these languages can be secured. Most of the security problems that come from certain languages are the fault of the programmer and not the actual language itself.

This time I want to discuss features that belong to the new System.Collections.Concurrent namespace in the.NET Framework 4. When you design parallel applications, you often need thread-safe data storage as well as some mechanism of sending messages bet…

The article lists 15 very useful tips for computer programmers. I hope if they are followed then programmer’s as well as program efficiency both increase.