Task Asynchronous Programming (TAP) model will go down as one of the landmark of C# language revolution. The typical method signature with return type Task/Task<T> has since then made significant appearances in our programming life. But despite all its glorious functionalities, it needs to be noted that it comes at a certain cost - performance … Continue reading Allocation free ‘async’ Methods
Author: Anu Viswan
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Updated Span API : NonPortableCast and AsReadOnlySpan to MemoryMarshal.Cast and AsSpan
One of the interesting changes (not sure why Microsoft changed this) was moving/changing the Span<T> API's a bit. For example, the Span<T>.NonPortableCast Method was moved as an extension method under MemoryMarshal. Previous API Current API Similarly, the string.AsReadonlySpan method has been renamed. The new API is as follows. Previous API Current API The MemoryMarshal extensions … Continue reading Updated Span API : NonPortableCast and AsReadOnlySpan to MemoryMarshal.Cast and AsSpan
The new String Interpolation and Ternary Operator
A quick tip for the new C# string interpolation. The new string interpolation has made things more simpler and readable. One might be tempted to include ternary operators within string interpolation. However if you attempt something like following, the compiler would throw an error The fix is as simple as it can get. Just include … Continue reading The new String Interpolation and Ternary Operator
Deconstruct and Extension Methods
In an earlier post, we explored the Deconstruct feature for Non-Tuples. It was a pretty useful feature that came along in the 7.x series . If one does have access to source, adding deconstruct is quite easy. But what about classes we do not have (source code) access to ? For example, the .Net framework … Continue reading Deconstruct and Extension Methods
Caliburn.Micro #007 : Bootstrapper with Unity
Unity is one of the most commonly used IOC containers used by developers, and it would be unfair if I don't include it as a part of the Caliburn.Micro WPF Tutorials (Creating Bootstrappers). This particular post is dedicated to building bootstrapper for Caliburn.Micro application using Unity as the IoC Container. The key for creating Bootstrappers … Continue reading Caliburn.Micro #007 : Bootstrapper with Unity
Lock for Async Methods
Despite the intended nature, we seldom might come across situation where we would want to place a lock around an async statement and make it behave differently, especially when accessed from different threads. Let's try to mock the scenario first to demonstrate the issue. The lock-async Problem Consider the following code snippet. The output of … Continue reading Lock for Async Methods
Invoke UIElement’s Focus() Method From ViewModel
One of the things WPF developers often notice is inability to SetFocus on a particular control from the ViewModel. This problem can be however easily resolved using an attached property. Let's examine the code. We will begin by writing an attached property, for the purpose of example, named as IsFocused. The sole objective of the … Continue reading Invoke UIElement’s Focus() Method From ViewModel
SharedSizeGroup: Managing Column Size across Grids
SharedSizeGroup is an underused WPF attribute, but one that can make life lot more easier when design WPF forms with multiple Grids that need to share a column size. Consider the screenshot below. The three pairs of Label and Textbox are in separate grids (with column width set to auto), resulting in an unorganized layout. … Continue reading SharedSizeGroup: Managing Column Size across Grids
Leaders and Eye Specialist
How do I define leadership or how would like myself to be seen as a leader in the future. These are some of the questions I often come across. To be honest, it is quite hard to answer it precisely, after all, each 'act' of leadership depends on various factors including what the circumstances/situation demands. … Continue reading Leaders and Eye Specialist
Rectangle Annotation With Rounded Corner in Oxyplot
It has been few months since I started playing around with Oxyplot, and it continues to impresses me. Having said that, there are times when certain challenges are thrown showing light on certain limitation of the tool. One of such limitation and a way to overcome is being discussed in this blog post. Oxyplot supports … Continue reading Rectangle Annotation With Rounded Corner in Oxyplot
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