Parallelism in .NET – Part 17, Think Continuations, not Callbacks
In traditional asynchronous programming, we’d often use a callback to handle notification of a background task’s completion. The Task class in the Task Parallel Library introduces a cleaner alternative to the traditional callback: continuation tasks.
Attached Property port of my Window Close Behavior
Nishant Sivakumar just posted a nice article on The Code Project. It is a port of the MVVM-friendly Blend Behavior I wrote about in a previous article to WPF using Attached Properties.
While similar to the WindowCloseBehavior code I posted on the Expression Code Gallery, Nishant Sivakumar’s version works in WPF without taking a dependency on the Expression Blend SDK.
I highly recommend reading this article: Handling a Window’s Closed and Closing Events in the View-Model. It is a very nice alternative approach to this common problem in MVVM.
2010 Visual C# MVP Award
I received a pleasant surprise today. I was presented this morning with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award for Visual C#. According to the award email, this “award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.â€
I feel honored and proud to receive this award, and hope that I can continue to be a valuable member of the community in the future. Thank you to everyone who nominated me!
