Welcome to the fortieth issue of Community Convergence. This week we have two new releases of note:

• We have created a new regular post called Future Focus that is designed to keep the community aware of the C# Team's long term plans for the language. The first Future Focus post covers a C# Language feature tentatively called Dynamic Lookup that is currently scheduled to be part of the next version of Visual Studio.
• The RSS feed for Future Focus.
• All articles tagged as Future Focus.
• Code Gallery, a new site for sharing sample code, is now live. Upload your own samples, find samples from other community members, or find samples written by developers at Microsoft.

From the C# Team

Eric Lippert

• Immutability in C# Part Nine: Academic? Plus my AVL tree implementation
• Immutability in C# Part 10: A double-ended queue

Kirill Osenkov

• Welcome to my new place

Sree

• C# Debugging Improvements for VS 2008 SP1- Part 1

From the C# Community

Scott Guthrie

• VS 2008 Web Deployment Project Support Released
• Jan 24th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, IIS

Chad Hower

• Cosmos, a C# Open Source Managed Operating System. (Add a template to Visual Studio for building Cosmos Applications.)

Kerby Kuykendall

• You Want Code Samples? Want to Share Code Samples?

Joe Duffy

• Blocked threads and work schedulers (See Steve and PCP Below)

Charles Petzold

• Cabinet Perspective in WPF 3D

Downloads and other Resources

MSDN

• Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison

Steve Teixeira

• Steve is now the PUM of the Parallel Computing Platform: I'm on PCP (and you can be too)

Brad Abrams

• Senior Developers for ASP.NET and Silverlight Wanted!

Astoria Team

• ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight Add-On

Bryant Likes

• Consuming Astoria from Silverlight