Welcome to the fifty-second release of Community Convergence. In this issue, I provide a series of links to C# team blog posts, and to other posts that might be of interest to C# developers.

Team Posts

Eric Lippert

• What's the difference, part one: Generics are not templates
• What's The Difference, Part Two: Scope vs Declaration Space vs Lifetime

Kirill Osenkov

• Instantiating types with no public constructors
• Comparing doubles can produce unexpected results
• Having Fun with the New Editor in VS 2010
• Bling: a WPF Framework/Declarative Strongly-Typed DSL for Quick Expressive C# WPF Apps

Sree

• Why Can’t Extension methods on Value Type be curried

Charlie Calvert

• Recent Videos from the C# Team (2008-2009)
• New in Help: Low Bandwidth View of the MS Online Library
• New Visual Studio Learn Page

Other Posts of Interest

MSDN Magazine

• ASP.NET Presentation Patterns
• Configuration Testing With Virtual Server
• Rendering Text On A Path With WPF

Mistsu

• Serving Silverlight Apps from Windows Mobile
• Linq: how to share parameters between lambda expressions ?
• WPF/Surface demo: driving an extending desktop with a popfly duck !

Scott Hanselman

• Step-By-Step: Turning a Windows 7 DVD or ISO into a Bootable VHD Virtual Machine
• Step-By-Step: How To "Upgrade" from Windows XP to Windows 7
• Hanselminutes on 9 - ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 Released
• Virtual Camaraderie - A Persistent Video "Portal" for the Remote Worker
• Windows Home Server Twitter Notification Plugin

Dan Fernandez

• Popfly Game Downloader Available
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet

Brad Abrams

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 17: Evolving an Application
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 18: Custom Linq Provider

Chuck Jazdzewski

• Simulating INumeric with policies