I will be giving a talk entitled The Essence of LINQ in Seattle and Milwaukee over the coming week. Wisconsin .NET User Group Date : Saturday, April 5, 2008 Event : Deeper in .NET 2008 Location : Milwaukee Marriott West Seattle Netda User Group : Date...

Welcome to the forty-second issue of Community Convergence. The last few weeks have found me working hard and late. We have had a successful internal C# community review, and that means I have been gathering statistics on all the projects we've been working...

It's a bit rainy and snowy today in Redmond. What an excellent time to curl up by the fire and watch a movie! Here are some suggestions. Videos by Anders Anders Hejlsberg, Herb Sutter, Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman: Software Composability and the Future...

A number of interesting sample applications have been released for C#, VB and C++ developers over the last few months. These include C# Sample code for building Peer 2 Peer applications on Vista A C# toolkit for developing Facebook applications C# interfaces...

Mike Hendrickson from O'Reilly has published a survey of the technical book market . As when viewing the TIOBE site, I think it is wrong to extrapolate any broad conclusions about the development languages market from the data you see here. For instance...

I mention the preview of their book that Jamie King and Bruce Eckel have made available as a free download on the MindView website in my latest Community Convergence post. However, I did not describe its contents, and so I thought I would take a moment...

Welcome to the forty-first Community Convergence. The big news this week is that we have moved Future Focus , our peek at features that might appear in the next version of Visual Studio, to the Code Gallery . To seed our efforts on this new platform we...

The success of the first Future Focus post has made it easy for us to continue sharing our plans for the future of the C# language. The intelligent and thoughtful suggestions we received from the community about the Dynamic Lookup feature have had a significant...