Welcome to the XXXIX issue of Community Convergence. The big news this week is that Microsoft has begun releasing source code for the .NET Framework libraries. Shawn Burke explains how to configure Visual Studio so that you can step into the source. The first step is download the hot-fix with the romantic title KB944899. Scott Guthrie informs us that source is available for the following code libraries:

• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• Windows Forms
• The .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.Collections, System.Drawing, System.IO, System.NET, and more.)
• ASP.NET
• ADO.NET and XML

In other news, veterans of the C# world might be interested to hear that Dan Fernandez is moving to the Channel 9 team. 

From the C# Team

Eric Lippert

• Recent Book News, Part One
• Recent Book News, Part Two
• Immutability in C# Part Eight: Even More On Binary Trees

Matt Warren

• LINQ: Building an IQueryable Provider - Part IX

Luca Bolognese

• Creating an immutable value object in C# - Part V - Using a library

Ed Mauer

• The Win32Manifest Switch

Kirill Osenkov

• How to create a generic List of anonymous types?
• Testing using WPF UI automation

Charlie Calvert

• TerraServer Sample: A LINQ Provider

From the C# Community

Dino Esposito

• Inside Visual Studio 2008

Wes Dyer

• The Marvels of Monads

Sara Ford

• Visual Studio 2008 Tip of the Day
• Visual Studio 2008 Tip of the Day Gadget

Rico Mariani

• Performance Quiz #13 -- Linq to SQL compiled queries cost

Tony Patton

• HTTP Programming with WCF and the .NET Framework 3.5

Mitsu

• MangaReader app using WPF

Scott Guthrie

• .NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Justin James

• Easily Manipulate Data with LINQ

Upcoming Events and Pod/Webcasts

• The C# 3.0 Jam
• WEBCAST: What's New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5

Of Interest

Ted Neward

• Java: "Done" like the Patriots, or "Done" like the Dolphins?

James Carr

• TDD Anti-Patterns