Welcome to the fifty-fourth edition of Community Convergence. The number of posts from the C# team is a bit sparse right now since so many folks are heads down on C# 4.0. There was a little flurry of excitement among some of us on the team when Soma posted on new features in C# 4.0. We’ve received word of a free MSDN Event for WPF developers being held in Southern California. And of course, PDC will be held this year in Los Angeles on Nov 17-19.

Posts from the C# Team

Eric Lippert

• Iterator Blocks Part Seven: Why no anonymous iterators?
• Queueing Theory In Action, plus, frogs
• Arrays of arrays

Kirill Osenkov

• Calling new on an interface

Ian Halliday

• What’s wrong with this Code?

Other Teams

Joe Duffy

• A simple condition variable primitive
• On effects and ubiquitous parallelism
• Concurrency and exceptions

Scott Hanselman

• Podcast: NServiceBus with Udi Dahan
• Podcast: Optimizing Your Website with Jeff Atwood and Stackoverflow

Brad Abrams

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure

Community

Jon Skeet

• Evil Code of the Day: variance and overloading
• Faking COM to fool the C# compiler
• Evil code of the day

Charles Petzold

• Animated “3D” Text in Silverlight 3
• A Simple Silverlight 3 Synthesizer with Keyboard (of Sorts)
• A Rotating Wireframe Cube for Silverlight 3
• A Rotating *Solid* Cube in Silverlight 3
• Dodecahedron for Silverlight 3
• Another Rotating 3D Figure for Silverlight 3
• Taper Transforms with Matrix3DProjection: An Analytical Approach

Bojan Resnik

• C# lambda and foreach variable