People actually download and use Copyable, and they tend to use it in scenarios I haven’t used it in. This results in bug reports and patch submissions. So far, these have been given to me by e-mail or by blog comment, neither of which is a particularly great way of receiving them. So after receiving another one today, I finally got around to putting Copyable on GitHub.
Among the news in .NET 4.0 are several additions by the Parallel Computing Platform Team. As I wandered through the documentation of the Task library with cloud computing and parallelism buzz in the back of my head, I got the idea of using tasks to create a minimalistic MapReduce. Here’s the result, a rather crude and simple, but efficient MapReduce for you to play with and utilize!
C# 3.0 includes a new feature known as extension methods, and fiddling with it triggered the idea of creating a mechanism for copying or cloning (virtually) any .NET object or graph of objects. The manifestation of that idea has become a rather decent little framework for copying objects. It performs a deep copy as automatically as it possibly can, and provides mechanisms to easily solve many of the cases which cannot be covered automatically. It is great for copying your custom object hierarchies, and saves you the pain of a solution like implementing ICloneable for an entire hierarchy of objects. Click here to grab it now, and read on for a presentation.
