I was going to title this post as ‘Now for something completely different’ but felt that a little bit too Pythonesque, and when I thought about it a bit it isn’t really completely just slightly different, namely C# rather than my usual F# posts.

This article is inspired by an MVP summit talk about common pitfalls in the C# asynchronous programming model. I look at a number of easy to make mistakes when writing asynchronous code in C# and demonstrate that most of them would not easily happen when using F#.

Last Thursday, I gave a talk at the Bay.NET user group in Berkeley, introducing F# to C# developers. First off, I have to thank everybody who came – you guys were great, lots of good questions, nice energy, I had a fantastic time! My goal was to highlight why I think F# is awesome, and of course this had to include a Type Provider demo, one of the most amazing features of F# 3.0. So I went ahead, and demoed Tomas Petricek’s World Bank Type Provider, and Howard Mansell’s R Type Provider – together. The prom[...]

Catapult Systems, my employer, is hosting several of the upcoming Windows Azure Dev Camps. I’ll be helping out with two in Denver (April 25) and Houston (April 29). The Dev Camps will provide you with an overview of Windows Azure and an opportunity to complete several Hands-on Labs, including topics such as IaaS and Azure […]