Week 10 Reading

ASP Page

How to tell how a page was invoked

Week 8 Reading

Been a while, but I've been going through the slides mostly since the threading. Seems this newest assignment has presented me with quite the challenge, so I must do some research:

Long story short: I'm going to try to prep my team's code for silverlight. This should prove interesting.

Calling Synchronous Methods Asynchronously - Link taken from the slides
Create Asynchronous WebService Methods - Link taken from the slides

Now that I'm coming across some new problems I need to dig deeper into the ins and outs of WCF. Because I just love more reading.

Learning the ABCs of Programming WCF
Introduction to WCF

Week 5 Reading

This is the week of threads. So I'm reading up on MSDN's threading guides starting at the tutorial to the advanced synchronization guide.

Threading Tutorial - Much like what was a covered in class on Monday.

which also led to lots and lots of links:

Monitor Pulse Method

lock statement

Using threads and threading

Managed threading best practices

Thread Synchronization

Exceptions in managed threads

Synchronized data for multi threading

managed thread states

foreground and background threads

managed and unmanaged threads in windows

Thread.suspend garbage collection and safe points

Monitor synchronization Technology sample

Wait Synchronization Technology sample

Week 4 Reading

Chapter 2 of The C# Programming Language: Third Edition

A Laboratory For Teaching Object Oriented Thinking - This method of writing out classes is something I haven't practiced in the past. The MVC portions of my early CS classes were benched because the program I was in was experimental.

UserControl - A glut of methods, properties, etc. The remarks and examples are really non-descript. I will probably reference the members later, but this is not a good introduction to it.

The great tutorial to using WPF - Since I used Forms on the last GUI assignment, I have put myself behind on my WPF knowledge. This is a great extension to the lectures that really explain the design behind WPF and how to use things like UserControl.

yield - I checked this out after class. I had no idea such a thing existed, but anywhere I find a use for it, I'm for it.

Exploring the Observer Design Pattern - This is definitely a goto for understanding the Observer design.

Getting Started With Windows Presentation Foundation - Offered a good way to see XAML code and how it adjusts the window as a result.

Week 3 Reading

KeyValuePair - C#'s generic pair structure.

Dictionary - C#'s map structure.

Regular Expressions in ASP.NET - Since the input for this week's assignment is a little more detailed, I researched the different options you can pass to Regex.

Chapter 1 of The C# Programming Language: Third Edition
Besides brushing up on C#, I'm doing the same thing with Objective-C, and Java. Add to that I come from a strong C++ background. The result has me making too many assumptions with how things work. Reading from the man who created C# with the annotations added by various programmers has been a dream so far. They provide how-tos and describe all the underlying mechanics and/or philosophy behind each topic, which I've really come to appreciate at a higher level of programming. It also serves as a great support to the lecture for anything I may have missed.

Week 2 Reading

This week's reading:
List - Basic containment class. It's allowed to be returned as an IEnumerable if being used in a method.
Image - Image visualization class. Used in a Windows Form to display images in a window.
BitmapSource - A representation of a single image in data form at a set resolution.
Uri - "Uniform Resource Identifier" It gives read-only access to a file at local or URL destination.
CheckBox - Basic CheckBox. Can set dimensions and text. There's a bool check for checking its status. Can be linked to a method for action.

New: Copy of Visual Studio did not contain System.Windows.Controls namespace in the reference package. Instead I had to fool with Forms objects to get the d

Bitmap - An even more basic version of loading a bitmap. Constructor can be called with a string of the filepath.

PictureBox - An image frame that can hold an image like a Bitmap. Similar to Image, but seems to have less functionality.

First week's reading.

For the first week's reading I have read the following:

Chapters 1-9 of C# Precisely (all the way up Classes)
Chapter 15 of C# Precisely (Interfaces)
Chapter 19 of C# Precisely (Exceptions)
Chapter 22 of C# Precisely (I/O)

Regex (C#'s regular expression class system)

IComparable interface