Wednesday, June 15, 2011

jQuery versus the Ajax Control Toolkit–Why should I use jQuery Instead ?

jQuery versus the Ajax Control Toolkit–Why should I use jQuery Instead ?

jQuery versus the Ajax Control Toolkit–Why should I use jQuery Instead ?

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 11:23 AM PDT

I recently received this email from an MSJoe blog reader. Hi Joe, thanks for the posts about jquery..   I'm now wondering, we are using the ms ajax toolkit. I like the simple use of it. Now doing jquery you will have to write javascript, which will have the advantage that all cpu cycles are [...] Read More......(read more)

Introducing C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 10:30 AM PDT

A few months ago, Herb Sutter told about a keynote he was to delivered today in the AMD Fusion Developer Summit (happening these days). He said by then:

"Parallelism is not just in full bloom, but increasingly in full variety. We know that getting full computational performance out of most machines—nearly all desktops and laptops, most game consoles, and the newest smartphones—already means harnessing local parallel hardware, mainly in the form of multicore CPU processing. (…) More and more, however, getting that full performance can also mean using gradually ever-more-heterogeneous processing, from local GPGPU and Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) flavors to "often-on" remote parallel computing power in the form of elastic compute clouds. (…)"

In that sense, S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President of the Developer Division made this morning the following announcement:

"I'm excited to announce that we are introducing a new technology that helps C++ developers use the GPU for parallel programming. Today at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit, we announced C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP). (…) By building on the Windows DirectX platform, our implementation of C++ AMP allows you to target hardware from all the major hardware vendors. (…)"

C++ AMP, as Soma tells in his post, is actually an open specification. Microsoft will deliver an implementation based on its Windows DirectX platform (DirectCompute, as Sr. Program Manager Daniel Moth specifies in a later post a few minutes ago).

Daniel added that C++ AMP will lower the barrier to entry for heterogeneous hardware programmability, bringing performance to the mainstream. Developers will get an STL-like library as part of the existing concurrency namespace (whose Parallel Patterns Library –PPL- and its Concurrency Runtime –ConcRT- are also being enhanced in the next version of Visual C++) in a way that developers won't need to learn a different syntax, nor using a different compiler.

 

Both Soma and Daniel finish by telling that these sessions at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit are being recorded and will be published later this week on Channel 9. We'll provide here some updates when those videos are live –you can also register here to see the rest of the summit live.

Pedal to the metal, let's go native at full speed!

 

References:

  1. S. Somasegar's announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2011/06/15/targeting-heterogeneity-with-c-amp-and-ppl.aspx
  2. Daniel Moth's blog post: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/C-Accelerated-Massive-Parallelism.aspx
  3. Herb Sutter about his keynote at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit: http://herbsutter.com/2011/04/06/fusion/
  4. AMD Fusion Developer Summit Webcasts: http://developer.amd.com/afds/pages/webcast.aspx

Proposing a new RelayCommand snippet for MVVM Light V4

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:39 AM PDT

In MVVM Light V4, I am proposing a new RelayCommand snippet, making it easier to declare and initialize a RelayCommand. I came up with a syntax that allows having the RelayCommand and its initialization in one convenient location. I am looking for feedback...( read more )...(read more)

Podcast – Cyra Richardson, Principal Program Manager Lead, Server & Tools On-Line

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 06:24 AM PDT

Cyra Richardson is a Principal Program Manager Lead in Microsoft's Server & Tools On-Line group and is primarily responsible for driving the strategy for almost all of Microsoft Developer and ITPro community properties. In this episode I talk with Cyra about the challenges and direction of Microsoft's on-line communities. I once described Cyra as the [...] Read More......(read more)

Orchard 1.2 Released

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 06:03 AM PDT

Version 1.2 of Orchard is now officially available. You can find the download and release notes here: http://orchard.codeplex.com/releases/view/65184 This release is mainly about bug fixes and performance improvements, but it is also introducing a couple of nice features. Creation date is now the date that we use for everything in the front-end, which should bring [...] Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for June 14, 2011 -- #1107

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:13 PM PDT

In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury , Stephen Price , Mark Heath , Oren Gal , Jesse Liberty , and Laurent Duveau . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Implicit Data Template in Silverlight 5" Laurent Duveau WP7: "Fast Application Switching Made Easy" Jesse Liberty...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Phone Developer Contests and Promotions

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 06:16 PM PDT

Microsoft is trying hard to get developers to make apps and games for Windows Phone 7, and this means opportunities for developers. This is a rundown of the promotions I know of, if you know of more please let me know in the comments and I'll update the...( read more )...(read more)

A Solution for Binding Silverlight DataGrid Columns to 2nd Level Collection

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:30 AM PDT

Supreet Tare posted a thread on MSDN Forum to help him binding a 2nd Level Collection in Silverlight DataGrid control. As he didn't find any good solution there, he asked me on Twitter to give a solution to him for the same. I did a small investigation...( read more )...(read more)
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