Recently my time has been taken up with a series of internal issues involving Beta1, C# Samples and various programs to help our team work more closely with our customers. Meanwhile our developers have been busy getting Orcas Beta 1 ready for release...

In April and May the C# Team will have three public chats. April 23, 2007, 11 AM Pacific Time C# Visual Studio IDE Chat : Talk about C# IntelliSense for LINQ. Discuss what else is planned for Visual Studio Orcas. Plus: Code snippets, enhanced IntelliSense...

Last week the Microsoft MVP's converged on Redmond from all corners of the globe. It was a great occasion and a wonderful chance to meet new friends and renew old acquaintances. Scroll down for more information on the Summit. New from the C# Team From...

We hiked a river on the eastern slopes of the Olympic Range. Loggers have had their way with the lower stretches of the Big Quilcene river; only a few patches of old growth remain. Throughout most of its length, small Douglas Firs stand by the side of...

Just a quick note to let you know that the LINQ Samples code has been updated. The only change is to add the LINQ to Entities code back into the SampleQueries example. If you open up SampleQueries, you will see a new item called 101 LINQ to Entities samples...

Here is a short 7 minute video to serve as an introduction to the Samples that are included with the Visual Studio Orcas March CTP . The samples that shipped with the CTP needed to be updated. As a result, its best if you don't pull them from the CTP...

Here are a set of updated samples for the Visual Studio Orcas March CTP . These samples replace all the LINQ and LINQ to XML samples that shipped with the March CTP. This is a first cut on updating the samples. More updates may follow. Please report any...

Community Convergence in a nutshell : The March CTP for Visual Studio, creating Art with LINQ, videos showing how to write LINQ to SQL, interviews with core members of the Microsoft C# team, and much more! Read on to learn all. Overview Welcome to the...

The February CTP (aka as the March CTP) is now available for download as a regular install and as a virtual PC . Here is a video that serves as an introduction to the CTP. FebCtp Video: Stream it FebCtp Video: Download Video Text overview from the install...