Hi, last few days I got some questions from few folks that they are confused on how to call a WCF service in WinRT (Windows 8). This confusion occurs mainly if you are Silverlight dev or Windows Phone 7.5 dev and you are used to the traditional async method and the CompletedEvent. In Silverlight these … Continue reading Accessing a WCF Service WinRT vs Silverlight
Silverlight Dispatcher
Threading in Silverlight is simple and have very few classes and limited functionality. In Silverlight we rarely go for the threading since the platform itself is asynchronous. Click to read how to do asynchronous programming in C# 5.0 In Silverlight the main thread is incorporated with the Dispatcher, and we can use the BeginInvoke method … Continue reading Silverlight Dispatcher
Singleton Pattern
Singleton pattern is a simple design pattern in software practice and sometimes considered as an anti-pattern due its tight coupling nature. A very simple non thread safe implementation of the Singleton pattern would be like this. Singleton non thread safe class Singleton { privatestatic Singleton _instance; private Singleton() { Console.WriteLine("Singleton instantiated"); … Continue reading Singleton Pattern
Asynchronous Programing C# 5.0
C# 5.0 mostly bluff about the asynchronous programming. Of course it has some really kick ass features in the asynchronous programming world. First of all, asynchronous programing is not new in C# 5.0. It’s been there from C# 1.0, so what’s the big deal now ? In C# 5.0 they have created a whole new, … Continue reading Asynchronous Programing C# 5.0
C# 5.0 – Caller Information
C# 5.0 has some new features which can aid us in debugging and logging. Take a look at this code below on how we do logging prior to C# 5.0. Here we have the need of logging the details of the call made to MethodB() 1 class Program 2 { 3 static void Main(string[] args) … Continue reading C# 5.0 – Caller Information
