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YVision 4.0 Beta 1 released!

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:33:37 GMT

YVision is .NET library for the development of Natural User Interfaces (NUI) and Augmented Reality (AR). It has a component-based architecture and uses behavior trees to control the lifetime of the components. It's been used by YDreams to deploy hundreds of projects and its finally available to the public. Download, try the tutorials and send us your feedback!

Camera-based interaction in Silverlight

Tue, 17 May 2011 06:17:01 GMT

A live demo of camera-based interaction in Silverlight.

Lightweight Fiber/Coroutines implementation on C#

Tue, 20 May 2008 01:13:00 GMT

Fibers using .NET iterators...

Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:46:04 GMT

In this post I discuss the gcConcurrent and gcServer settings which allow you to exercise some control how the Garbage Collector operates. Tuning the garbage collector to the specific context of the particular application can significantly improve the performance of both non-threaded and multi-threaded applications.

Thinking in Concurrently in .NET

Wed, 14 May 2008 20:46:22 GMT

Matthew Podwysocki discusses several present and future approaches to handling concurrency in .Net. From the article: "We need not only a better way to handle concurrency, but a better way to describe them as well. This is where Pi-calculus comes into the picture... But before we get down that beaten path, let's look at a few options that I chose."

Immutability and the goold old 'const' keyword

Fri, 09 May 2008 19:45:37 GMT

Functional programming depends on immutable types. How can we find at compile time that a struct/class is immutable? The C++ 'const' keyword would be helpful...

Why is it so F#...ing Difficult to Buy Visual Studio!?

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:03 GMT

Have you tried upgrading Trial edition of Visual Studio or buying it through the official site while living outside of United States? I wasted half a day and failed.

NSvn Handling of Repository Externals Property Text

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:46:03 GMT

NSvn is a managed wrapper for Subversion. It's a DLL included in AnkhSVN and no documentation. It's always good to find information on it...