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Windows 8 for C# Developers: Intro and Splash Screen

Now that the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out, I’m starting a series of blog posts on creating WinRT / Metro applications using C# and XAML.  As with other series I have done in the past, early on,...

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Win8 exploration: Controls sample

This post is part of my Windows 8 / WInRT exploration and notes.  This time, I’m digesting the WinRT Controls sample. This sample has quite a few more features to digest. There are six different...

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CodeMash async talks are live on InfoQ

The joint async talks that Jon Skeet and I presented at CodeMash are now live on InfoQ.  Jon and I co-presented two hours of content on the C# 5 async features: Part 1, Part 2. If you want to...

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WinRT Samples: Running Background Tasks

The next Win8 sample shows the general form of the background task contract for Windows 8 Metro applications. There are two parts to implementing a background task for a Metro style application:...

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Win 8 exploration: Simple Databinding

This is another in my post series on WinRT programming for C# developers. For review, I’m blogging my notes on running and modifying each of the samples from this page:...

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WinRT: App Activation, Resume and Suspend

This post doesn’t have much code, but there’s a few important points to remember for working with WinRT apps and application suspend and activation. When your application starts, it becomes the active...

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Reader Question: Member Initializers vs. Constructors

I received a very interesting question from a reader earlier this week: I have a question for you about Item 12 in Effective C# (2nd edition), "Prefer Member Initializers to Assignment Statements"....

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Testing without ExpectedExceptionAttribute

The Windows Store version of the Microsoft Test Framework does not include an ExpectedExceptionAttribute class. I’ve already received questions on how people should go about creating tests where the...

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Testing async Methods in C# 5

Last week I promised that I’d write a blog post on using Assert.ThrowsException() to test async methods. Before I get to that, let’s go over some of the other issues that come up with testing async...

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Async, Exceptions and Library Design

Hat tip to Stephen Toub for discussing this with me and helping to describe the solution. At my CodeMash precompiler, I mentioned how the C# compiler ensures that methods marked with the ‘async’...

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