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This is my last post on this blog. My new blog is here: http://lucabolognese.wordpress.com/ I accepted a role as Director for Credit Suisse in London. I’m excited by the opportunity to work in the financial industry, a long-standing desire of mine...
In my previous blog post I introduced the concept of GPGPU ending with: On Windows, there is already a cross-GPU-vendor way of programming GPUs and that is the Direct X API. Specifically, on Windows Vista and Windows 7, the DirectX 11 API offers a...
What GPU obviously stands for Graphics Processing Unit (the silicon powering the display you are using to read this blog post). The extra GP in front of that stands for General Purpose computing. So, altogether GPGPU refers to computing we can per...
ADO.NET Team Blog
2/19/2010
A refresh of the POCO Template that is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is now available in the Extension Manager of Visual Studio and through Visual Studio Gallery. For an introduction on how to use the template, please see th...
I’ve run into this problem a few times with people asking about how to pre-authenticate .NET WebRequest calls doing an HTTP call to the server – essentially send authentication credentials on the very first request instead of waiting for a server ...
ADO.NET Team Blog
2/18/2010
Today we are releasing Entity Framework Feature CTP 3 . This updated preview addresses compatibility with Visual Studio 2010 RC for Code First (the new name for Code Only) so that users can continue to work with our code-based metadata generation ...
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
2/18/2010
The conditional operator ( condition ? consequence : alternative ) is often referred to as both the “ternary operator†and the “tertiary operatorâ€. What’s the difference? “ Ternary †means “ having three parts â€. Operators in C# can be unary, bina...
Scott Hanselman
2/18/2010
I got a nice little Yellow Screen of Death (YSOD) error on some code running under IIS that worked fine when running on the VS Developer Web Server. The error was "A generic error occurred in GDI+" and you know that if an error is generic, it's su...
I want to use F# as a exploratory data analysis language (like R ). But I don’t know how to get the same nice graphic capabilities. So I decided to create them. Here is a library to draw charts in F#. It steals ideas from this book and this R pack...
Scott on Writing
2/17/2010
I teach two six week courses on ASP.NET at the University of California - San Diego Extension . The first class serves as an introduction to ASP.NET and as such many of the students create their first ASP.NET websites in class. During the first me...