This post describes how to use C# and the Visual Studio Tools for Office to program Outlook 2007. The focus is on showing the preliminary steps necessary to programmatically run a set of Outlook rules. Background Before coming to work at Microsoft in...

These transcripts will eventually be published here , but while we're waiting for that to occur, I'll post a copy here in my blog so that people can view it. Chat Topic: C# IDE ( http://csharp.net , http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie ) Date: Tuesday...

These transcripts are eventually published here , but while we're waiting for that to occur, I'll post a copy here in my blog so that people can view it. Chat Topic: The C# Language ( http://csharp.net , http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie ) Date: Tuesday...

In early October of this year (2006), Margie and I took a hike to Surprise Lake in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness near Steven's Pass. Figure 1: The Alpine Lakes sign on the Surprise Creek Trail. The lakes are part of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest...

Finding C# and .NET user groups is easy. The key is to use INETA , or CodeZone . You can find links to both these sites on the MSDN Community Center . In this short post I will talk some about INETA. INETA is a good resource for all information related...

Welcome to the twelfth Community Convergence . Please go here to post comments. This edition of Community Convergence is dedicated to Robert Altman. There is an IDE chat planned for Tuesday, November 28, at 1 PM Pacific time. Click here for help localizing...

This is the fourth in a series of articles on LINQ . This article focuses on an important operator from the list of 49 LINQ operators available in the May CTP. This operator, called Distinct() , is different from the other operators we have seen because...

Here is a new video Peter Hallam and I shot in his office. We started off talking about a new feature called automatic properties that will be part of the Orcas release of Visual Studio. The discussion then turns to the history and evolution of the C#...

A friend of mine sent me a WPF XAML project for use in Visual 2005 that gave me the error "This project type is not supported by this installation" when I tried to open it. I had the same error when I tried to open some other WPF demo projects that shipped...

Welcome to the eleventh Community Convergence . Change has blown through the CSharp Developer Center over the last few weeks. If you are a writer or developer who is interested in contributing to the C# community, please read on. I will devote most of...

This is index to the various technical posts I have created for this blog. As I add to each section, I will update this page. At this time I have two series of posts going, one on LINQ , and one on generics . I intend to keep working on both sections...

This article describes simple ways to query an in-memory collection or "table" using LINQ query expressions. The focus will be on a particular part of a query expression called a query operator. Query operators such as select , where , join and groupby...

Quick links to various items in the news: There is a fun video here on creating gadgets using the Windows Sidebar. It turns out that almost anyone who can write a little HTML can create a Windows Sidebar gadget. Here is the API for creating Sidebar gadgets...

Welcome to the tenth Community Convergence release. If you are reading this on the front page of the C# Developer Center you can enter comments in my blog. Anders Hejlsberg and Karen Liu are featured at Tech Ed Europe this week. You can find the latest...