Preview of Immutable Collections Released on NuGet – BCL Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Preview of Immutable Collections Released on NuGet – BCL Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs all is said.

Edit: Mono have started its own implementation here.

Sequence diagram made easy

How to express sequence diagrams textually and have pretty drawing automatically generated: Authentication Sequence.

How to Create a Windows To Go USB Drive

How to Create a Windows To Go USB Drive from Windows 7 or 8.

Using async/await without .NET Framework 4.5

Portable library version of async/await for everyone: Microsoft.Bcl.Async.

For the record, Microsoft.Bcl.Async is the new name of the old Async Targeting Pack (previously blogged here).

 

scriptcs

Scripting C# using Roslyn and with automated installation of dependencies (for now using nuget package but expandable): scriptcs.

More details can be found here and a list of available pack here (Script Packs master list). I don’t understand difference between a pack and a nugetpack. Second one can also be used with a simple:

nuget install nuget_name -o Packages

but a scriptcs -restore is needed to copy binaries to bin directory.

PowerArgs – Command args library

A library to add command line arguments discribed as attributed properties with auto-documentation, validation, interactive mode with completion: adamabdelhamed/PowerArgs · GitHub.

Nuget: Install-Package PowerArgs

For more command line library, you can refer to Get bored of commandline option reading.

Very good WinRT and WPF Blog

Worth a detour: Zeeshan Amjads WinRT, and WPF Blog | My WinRT, and WPF programming experiments.

Moving a type from one assembly to another using TypeForwardedToAttribute/TypeForwardedFromAttribute

How to move a type from source assembly to a target one: Moving a type from one assembly to another using TypeForwardedToAttribute – Dave’s Box.

But a recompilation and addind new reference are needed. TypeForwardedToAttribute (added in .Net 2.0) is only a syntaxic sugar but TypeForwardedFrom (added in .Net 4.0 bur should have been added in 2.0) doesn’t break serialization compatibility.

Metro like Theme for Bootstrap: Cosmo

Bootswatch: Cosmo.

NSSM – the Non-Sucking Service Manager

A service manager monitoring started services : NSSM – the Non-Sucking Service Manager:

• No installation needed,
• Install/remove service in GUI or cmd line,
• Intelligent restart.