Welcome to the thirty second issue of Community Convergence. I write these posts to keep you up to date on the latest information from the C# team. The biggest news right now is probably not C# specific, but nevertheless lots of my fellow team members...

This introductory level post covers a new LINQ feature in C# 3.0 called anonymous types. I'll focus on explaining when you might want to use an anonymous type, and when it might be more useful to use a specific type instead of an anonymous type. Using...

INETA will hold a Community Leadership Summit this Saturday, September 29, 2007 in Irving, CA. Designed to assist members of the .NET Community, the International .NET Association (INETA) provides support and resources for special interest groups and...

Welcome to the thirty-first edition of Community Convergence. This issue features links to seven very technical posts by Matt Warren on building LINQ providers. This is one of the most requested and important LINQ related subjects, so it is a great boon...

It was the C# team vs the Visual Basic team last week on .NET Rocks , as I went mano-a-mano in a grueling contest with VB Community maven Beth Massi on the .NET Rocks radio show! Well, all right, actually Beth is very much a woman, so we went senora a...

I will be speaking this Wednesday in San Francisco on LINQ. When : Wednesday, 9/19/2007 at 6:30 PM Where : Microsoft San Francisco Office, The Landmark at One Market, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94105 My talk will be an overview of LINQ, focusing on...

Welcome to the thirtieth Community Convergence. This edition has a wide range of articles on numerous topics and is not quite so narrowly focused on LINQ as most of the recent posts have been. The C# team has some wonderful bloggers, and one of the best...