Anith Gopal

The Rx.Net Team has announced a new version of Reactive Extensions for .NET.  Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections.

Even though I will warn you, as I was warned, that these videos are almost certainly clever fakes, the Mac addict portion of your brain will likely still experience a pleasurable thrill when you see them. I first saw these over at Cult of Mac , but they’ve been making the rounds, with TechCrunch and Gizmodo also weighing in on the veracity of these movies purporting to show the upcoming Apple tablet device in action, running iPhone OS

I spent a big part of the weekend trying to get my own code to grab a still image from my web cam.  In the end I had a complete failure, then I realized I had fallen into a trap that could happen to others. The USB web cam driver that was originally published as being for CE 4.2, 5.0 and 6.0 uses a set of IOCTL commands to interface with it.  The USB cam driver for 6.0 is a DSHOW camera interface and the IOCTL commands will compile and run

I recently was writing help documentation for PowerShell cmdlets and came across a very helpful blog post .  In the future I hope the PowerShell team comes out with a more rich editing experience, but editing XML wasn’t that bad.

Microsoft has released  Kobe , “a getting started resource kit for planning, architecting, and implementing Web 2.0 applications and services using the Microsoft Platform” and a lot of the response has been quite critical ( Ayende , Karl Seguin ). While the code, architecture and lack of tests have all been thoroughly criticized I think there is an even higher-level point that has been missed — Kobe, a Web 2.0 sample, was released and managed in a very Web 1.0 way.

We recently shipped MEF preview 5 on Codeplex , an exciting release. In the latest release, you’ll find we’ve made quite a few changes, and some really powerful enhancements to our previous codebase