Client side template binding in web applications is getting popular with every passing day. More and more libraries are coming up with enhanced support for client side binding. jQuery templates is one very popular mechanism for client side template bindings.

Things change pretty rapidly in technology world. New frameworks are coming up , existing ones are getting upgraded, languages are adding new features etc. And among all this, the important question for a developer like me or you is, how to keep our self updated? Although there are lots of things that can be done to keep our self updated, one of the approach that I have found working for me is to follow .Net programmers on Twitter.

Today I received my new laptop which is an Intel Core i5-2450M @ 2.50GHz 4 GB RAM machine . The other laptop(office provided) which I have used for past two years for programming is an Intel Core2 Duo T6570 @ 2.10GHz machine. Reason why I am talking about the laptops that I own is because of my interest in writing multi-threaded/parallel code using the new TPL API provided in the .Net 4.0 framework.

Coursera is offering free online courses on various topics such as Network, Information, HealthCare, Computer Science, Mathematics etc. Courses are grouped under these categories and they cover a wide range of topics. I recently completed a five week course called “Design and Analysis Of Algorithms” by Tim Roughgarden. Course material is good, video lectures are short, clear and downloadable. Programming exercise, Q&A, discussion forums etc are few other things that make these courses really interesting.

.Net 4.0 simplified writing parallel code by introducing the parallel variant of For/ForEach loop constructs. Most often the code that we write using Parallel.For/ForEach looks something like this :

C# language has observed dramatic transformation from 2.0 to 3.0 and finally with 4.0. C# 2.0 added generics , simplified delegate syntax, nullable types etc. C# 3.0 takes it a level next by adding LINQ , anonymous methods , anonymous types etc and finally C# 4.0 add dynamism, enhances parallel programming by introducing Task Parallel Library. Of all these changes , some are altogether new functionalities in language , some enhance previous features by adding additional capabilities or by just simplifying the syntactical structure. Now we have multiple ways of doing a particular task. Consider iterating through a list of objects. As a developer you can use basic foreach loop, write a LINQ query(either extension method syntax or query based format) or Parallel.ForEach(conditions applied :)) construct.

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Undoubtedly anyone who has ever programmed with any computer programming language has one way or the other has used some data structure , class etc to collect similar kind of data in one place.For example in C/C++ in order to handle multiple data of similar kind we have used Arrays.

If it comes to day to day normal programming with C# language then delegates by far are the most complicated thing to understand.Delegates add the asynchronous programming model to .Net Framework.Working with delegates involve following steps :

First of all a very happy and prosperous new year wishes to everyone ……… :)

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Visualizer’s are of great help when debugging your application.Visualizer’s essentially provide a the complete view of the data in separate modal dialogue window.I guess almost all of us have worked with DataSet’s and in order to see the data contained inside the DataSet , we hover our mouse cursor over the dataset variable and then select the magnifying glass.This in turn opens up a separate window , showing the content of DataSet.Visual Studio debugger comes with visualizer’s for plain text , HTML , XML based data , DataSet and its corresponding dependents.If you haven’t understood what visualizer’s are actually , then refer to the following screenshot.