I think your main problem is that you’re telling those two tasks to “Wait” with your call to Task.WaitAll(onSuccess, onError); The onSuccess and onError continuations are automatically setup for you and will be executed after their antecedent task completes. If you simply replace your Task.WaitAll(…) with taskThrows.Start(); I believe you will get the desired output. … Read more
In order to get rid of warnings you can use Contract.Assume
VS 2010 comes with MVC 2, but it’s not a part of the .NET Framework proper. This means that if you go download the .NET Framework 4 redistributable, it will not include the MVC 2 runtime. But since MVC is bin-deployable, this is fine. Your application – when deployed to a .NET 3.5 SP1 or … Read more
You actually just reminded me that I needed to fix this issue in an enviroment here. If your situation is the same as mine then it’s a simple fix. Just add the following to your web config: <system.webServer> <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests=”true” /> Edit: To provide further explanation on the issue at hand. In my case what … Read more
Object initializers outside a constructor (or method) has to refer to static members only. This is because the instance hasn’t been constructed until the constructor is run, hence the fields are not “ready yet” and therefor cannot be referenced. Static fields work because they are initialized before fields. Note that the error isn’t caused by … Read more
With VS2010 RC, I was able to create a .NET 3.5 application that uses optional parameters in C#. So yes, it’s all about syntactic sugar.
With Process Monitor I found that, right before trying to access the path, a DLL is used to retrieve this path. The following may be borderline legal, but I’d like to share my findings anyway. The DLL is located at C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0.dll and the class being used is Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Deployment.Bootstrapper.BootstrapperBuilder. Using your favourite disassembly tool, you can … Read more
DateTime has a TimeOfDay property, you can use this to compare the times for two dates as follows: var one = DateTime.Now.AddHours(1); var two = DateTime.Now; var diff = one.TimeOfDay – two.TimeOfDay;
I’ve made some illustrations to help me visualize the the sync primitives. Hope it helps someone else too. SemaphoreSlim CountdownEvent Barrier ManualResetEventSlim
That’s a loaded question with a very long answer. I doubt it is going to be helpful, let’s talk about the real problem you are trying to solve. Those performance counters have to be registered first before you can see them. Start an elevated console prompt (right-click the shortcut and use Run as Administrator) and … Read more