In this post I'm going to explain the query expression found in my previous article on LINQ. This series of posts is designed to get first time users of LINQ up and running. Subsequent entries will continue to explore query expressions and other basic...

There is a new October Orcas CTP available for download and there will be several upcoming live public chats with the C# team. The CTP became available on October 30. It is again packaged in a virtual machine, but available in several small downloads...

This is the first in a series of posts on C# and LINQ. These posts will describe a natural, easy to understand technique for querying data. When using LINQ, simply declare the question you want to ask, and then sit back and wait while the computer analyzes...

There is an extensive collection of Visual Studio 2005 C# snippets available for download . In this post I'll take a look at these snippets, and show how you can use simple XML syntax to parse the raw code that lies behind the snippets. The code used...

Welcome to the eighth installment of Community Convergence . This week let's focus on two C# Wikis available on the web. The first is the MSDN Wiki , and the second is called C# Online.NET . C# Online is a traditional Wiki designed to accumulate knowledge...

The C# team needs your help debugging the new Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta . I've written about this subject elsewhere, so I will refer you to that post for the details. Several questions were cleared up in my blog's comments section. Scott...

The C# Team needs your help! The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta needs more testers doing more testing. We need you to download the beta and start pounding on this release. This is an important release for the team, and for everyone who is using Visual Studio...

Strings in C# are highly optimized but also potentially very wasteful. They give programmers a safe, fast way to handle character data. However, there are a few tricks you need to know about strings and memory if you want to write efficient code. Without...

Another day of dog fooding Vista. Everything ran smoothly today, and I didn't encounter any serious bugs. I pushed the system fairly hard on a few occasions. I was late for a meeting at one point, and quickly closed the lid on my laptop, unplugged the...

I was walking down the hall today, and looked casually in Ander's office without really thinking about it. I went on a few steps, then suddenly had to backtrack. There was Anders Hejlsberg and Chuck Jazdzewski chatting together in one office! Ten years...

Learn C# Team Video's Interview with Anson Horton Interview with Karen Liu and DJ Park Luca Bolognese: What's New in the LINQ May CTP Interview with Raj Pai Interview with Wes Dyer ( Download ) Anders' Videos Anders: Chatting about LINQ and ADO.NET Entities...

The focus for me this week has been dog fooding Vista, Office, Orcas and half the other products running on my machine. There may have been some time back in the Linux days when I had this many beta bits on my box, but I doubt it. I’ve had Vista running...

Today I am testing various tools for writing blogs. Live Writer is in beta, and I want to see if I can use it to post a blog. If you are reading this, then my test worked. They have a set of forums you can read if you need help with the product. I was...

Here are some useful links to LINQ information. Use the comments or write me if you want to add to this list, or if you have corrections or additional information you want to supply. Index Core Microsoft LINQ Sites Official Microsoft Flavors of LINQ Other...