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.