Paulo Morgado

I’ve published the sample code I use to demonstrate the use of async/await in C# 5.0. You can find it here.

Microsoft is planning to expand the Remarks section of selected types in the .NET Framework Class Library to provide detailed usage information and code examples. (For an example, see the Remarks section for the System.String class.) In the current design, the Remarks section isn’t easily discoverable, because member tables take up a lot of screen real estate.

Windows 8 introduces a number of innovations in the way information is delivered to developers. Microsoft would like to know how well these are working for you, and where they can make further changes to improve your experience.

The C# Language Specification states on §7.5.1.2 that “(…) the expressions or variable references of an argument list are evaluated in order, from left to right (…)”.

(This content was written based on Silverlight for Windows Phone, but might be valid for generic Silverlight.)

There are a many articles on MSDN (and all over the Internet) about globalization and localization of Silverlight applications in general and specifically Windows Phone 7 applications but I haven’t found any that uses a value converter.

Microsoft Patterns & Practices has released a book with guidance on Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 RC.

Recently, I’ve released a Windows Phone application to explore and use contact information.

Sometime ago I wrote a predicate equality comparer to be used with LINQ’s Distinct operator.