Welcome to the sixteenth Community Convergence. This column comes out about once a week and is designed to help keep you informed about the status of the C# development team. As you probably all know by now, the December Orcas CTP has become the January...

This is the sixth in a series of articles on LINQ. In this post the focus will be on the LINQ Set operators. Near the end of the post I include a short section on the importance of choosing the best operator for a particular task. Please see the links...

The New York Times carries a heartening article on the benefits of messiness . It features a quote from Einstein: "“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?” There are also some interesting data such as the fact...

There are a number of new gadgets to play with on live.com . You can embed most of these gadgets on your live.com home page, or on your live spaces home page . The new Soapbox Gadget allows you to embed movies from http://soapbox.msn.com . There is also...

The January CTP (formerly known as the December CTP) should be out shortly after the new year. We are sorry about the delay; it is due in part to the huge December 14 storm that knocked out the power for over a million residents here in the Seattle area...

Now that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 is out I wanted to post a brief note about using it with May LINQ CTP . When reading this post, please note that this is not an official Microsoft advisory, but simply the result of my personal experience. When...

This week the focus is on the launch of Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (VS 2005 SP1) and the impending releases of the January Orcas CTP. (The December CTP has been delayed into the first week of January.) There will also be a beta of an update to...

Chat Topic: C# LINQ to SQL Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Unique Users : 106 Questions : 104 Forum : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=123&SiteID=1 Additional Information: http://csharp.net , http:/...

There will be an hour long public chat on LINQ to SQL and related technologies held Tuesday, Dec 12 at 1 PM Pacific time. Follow this link to see your local time for this chat. LINQ is a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that provides native C#...

A few days ago I had the classic "out of free space on drive C" error on my main computer. I wanted to find what was taking up space so I could cull the waste from my system. My friend Anson Horton pointed me to a tool on the web called SpaceMonger. Within...

Welcome to the thirteenth Community Convergence . New posts by team members, preparations for the December CTP, and the impending release of Whidbey Service Pack 1 top the news this week. I should also mention that another public chat with the C# team...

This is the fifth post in a series of articles on LINQ and query expressions. LINQ will be part of Visual Studio Orcas . It provides a simple means of querying data. This article focuses on grouping information from a query into related sets of data....