Big news. Microsoft releases the next C# and vb.net compiler as open source. Miquel de Icaza speaks of making it work on mono as well. It’s licensed under Apache license.

Big news. Microsoft releases the next c# and vb.net compiler as open source. Miquel de Icaza speaks of making it work on mono as well. It’s licensed under Apache license.

In order to setup ci for open source targeting c# projects I looked into using travis. There is a solution on stackoverflow. The post got me started. Turns out that there are some problems with using nuget packages for mono using xbuild (Path.Combine in the msbuild file NuGet.targets is not supported yet). I patched NuGet.targets to accept parameters (thus I can supply the correct paths using albacore). I’ve added the variable PackagesConfig to all the csproj files in the solutions: <PackagesConfig>$[...]

Explicit use of computed? What does a computed expression like this: this.isBusy = ko.computed(function() { return self._isBusy() || self._queryIsBusy(); }); have to do with <div data-bind="visible: _isBusy() || _queryIsBusy()" ></div> Internally knockout creates a computed out of an expression in a bindinghandler. Ko does not parse the expression in the html above to register the variables _isBusy or _queryIsBusy. Consequenses What does this mean for your code? If you have something below bu[...]

Explicit use of computed? What does a computed expression like this: this.isBusy = ko.computed(function() { return self._isBusy() || self._queryIsBusy(); }); have to do with <div data-bind="visible: _isBusy() || _queryIsBusy()" ></div> Internally knockout creates a computed out of an expression in a bindinghandler. Ko does not parse the expression in the html above to register the variables _isBusy or _queryIsBusy. Consequenses What does this mean for your code? If you have something below [...]