In a previous post I took a look at building a simple Silverlight application in Visual Studio Orcas. This post shows how to add a button control that comes with the Silverlight SDK. You can see the button in Figure 1. I will also add a few lines of code...

Chat Topic: C# LINQ Chat Date: Monday, May 21, 2007 Unique Attendees: 51 Questions Answered: 29 Charlie Calvert MSFT (Moderator): The chat will begin in about 5 minutes. Charlie Calvert MSFT (Moderator): Welcome to C# LINQ to SQL Chat! Charlie Calvert...

This post describes how a C# developer can set up and run a Silverlight project in Visual Studio Orcas. The best place to begin is by making sure you have Visual Studio Orcas installed. I prefer using the VPC versions of the Orcas betas, but you may have...

Welcome to the 27th Community Convergence. I use this column to keep you informed of events in the C# community, and of articles or posts in the C# world that are worth of mention. C# Team LINQ to SQL Chat on May 21 There will be a C# LINQ to SQL Chat...

Chat Topic: C# Team Chat Date: Monday, May 07, 2007 Unique Users : 112 Questions Submitted : 61 Charlie Calvert-MSFT (Moderator): Welcome to the C# compiler chat. I'm Charlie Calvert, the C# Community PM. Charlie Calvert-MSFT (Moderator): We...

Margie and I went for a hike up the Taylor River in the Cascades on Saturday, May 5. The Taylor River joins the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River a few miles east of North Bend, WA. Figure 1: The Taylor River. (Click on this or the other images in this...

Anders came back from Mix reporting that attendees were excited about Silverlight, the light-weight, cross platform CLR that can be delivered in a browser. He gave a talk at the converence. You can see the video here: Ander's LINQ presentation . -...

By now developers should be using Orcas Beta 1 if they want to work with LINQ. The latest LINQ bits are on Beta 1, and there are a few changes in Beta 1 from the way LINQ worked in the May CTP. As a result, it is best to use Orcas Beta 1. Doing so will...