I’ve been making use of Roger Alsing’s Async Fork for a few months as an alternative to the “for testing purposes only” Microsoft Parallel Extensions. With the release of C# 4.0 on the horizon, I decided to modify the internal workings of the Fork class to make use of the parallel extensions, which would result in very few modifications to my existing code. My reason for the modifications are to take advantage of the inner working of parallels extensions. Here is the modified version of the Fork class:     public class Fork    ...

If you’re making use of the Microsoft Office XP Web Services Toolkit 2.0 to fetch web service data in Excel (this version of the toolkit is compatible with Excel 2007), you may stumble across an error something along the lines of “SoapMapper:Array dimensions do not match definition.”. If the return type of the call is an array (which is declared as a Variant),  or a property in your return type is an array (also declared as a Variant),  this error is raised because the data returning from the call for the array has no elements. If you stumbled upon this article...

If you've decided to self-host a WCF service - or as in my case you already have a service in production but need it to be consumed by a Silverlight application, but keep on getting a security exception, here's a method of getting your existing services to work. It involves getting the WCF service to serve a "file" called "clientaccesspolicy.xml" when one is requested, as is done by Silverlight.