There are a lot of definitions of SOA out there, most very dry and verbose. Dan Fornes, CEO of Software Advice, just recently wrote a nice intro article on SOA's: Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs): A Plain English Guide that cuts through all that and explains terms in plain English. I especially...
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This is part of a series . To add to 3.5's new HashSet<T>, there is now SortedSet<T> new in 4.0. Both have the following distinguishing features: Their Contains methods execute quickly using a hash-based lookup They do not store duplicate elements and silently ignore requests to add duplicates...
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This is part of a series . Last time I started talking about the new dynamic type in C# 4, I covered why they were introduced to the language (scenarios), then some deep discussion of how they are implemented with the DLR, call-sites, and bindings, how internally they are represented as System.Object...
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Cliff Simpkins has one of the many announcement posts . Today, at the Virtual Application Infrastructure virtual event , the announcement was made first of the official launching Windows Server AppFabric , with the immediate availability of the Windows Server AppFabric Release Candidate (RC) ; the final...
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This is part of a series . I really should have combined Named Parameters when I wrote about Optional Parameters last time since they are similar and go well together. Again, nothing thrilling here to speak about in C# 4 (especially since VB has had these forever) but they do address some hardships in...
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This is part of a series . C# 4 allows you to declare optional parameters in methods, constructors, and indexers. A parameter is optional if it specifies a default value in its declaration: void Foo(int x = 42) { Console.WriteLine(x); } Optional parameters may be omitted when calling the method: Foo...
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This is part of a series . I have to admit. I am non-excited about C# 4 features, including the dynamic type. While C# 3, introduced many neccessaary features, especially for LINQ, but very useful in their own right, C# 4 seems more like a solution looking for a problem. IMHO, it seems like the language...
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A collection of links, not all "new" AppFabric/BizTalk/Identity AppFabric Virtual Launch on May 20th - Save the Date - Microsoft will be conducting an event to launch Windows Server AppFabric and BizTalk Server. They will be kicking off the Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch Event on...
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This is part of a series . Note: This material is from C# 4.0 In A Nutshell Page 239. Like BigInteger, the Complex struct is another specialized numeric type new to Framework 4.0 and is for representing complex numbers with real and imaginary components of type double. It also lives in the System.Numerics...
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This is part of a series . Another new type in Framework 4.0 os the BigInteger specialized numeric type. It lives in the new System.Numerics namespace and lets you represent an arbitrarily large integer without any loss of precision, Since C# does not provide native support for BigInteger, there's no...
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