Welcome to the fifty-seventh issue of Community Convergence. In this post I’ll focus on new articles from the C# team, as well as events taking place at PDC.

From the C# Team

Eric Lippert

• Closing over the loop variable considered harmful
• Three Umpires (The Compiler Calls ‘em as it Sees ‘em)
• Simple names are not so simple
• Simple names are not so simple, Part Two, plus, volcanoes and fried foods
• I have a Fit, but a lack of Focus.

Kirill Osenkov

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Known Issues – Part 2
• A million-dollar pen vs. a pencil
• Bezier Curves and Car Manufacturers
• Irony (.NET compiler construction framework)

Luca Bolognese

• Luca at PDC 2009 next week

Dustin Campbell

• Naming Anonymous Types with Generate from Usage

Sam Ng

• Com Interop in C# 4.0: Indexed Properties
• Channel 9: Dynamic in C#

Charlie Calvert

• Videos: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with Jim Nakashima, Part I
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio Beta 2, Part II
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Part III
• Microsoft SDK for Facebook Released
• HDI Video: Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010 with Karen Liu
• Classic, Lightweight and ScriptFree MSDN Library Views
• New Article by Bill Wagner on Dynamic Method Bags in C# 4.0
• New Article on Detecting Memory Leaks . NET Applications
• CSharp “How Do I Videos (Podcasts)” for the Zune Software
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 does not Load: The “Application Cannot Start” and Raster Font Errors
• Running IronPython Scripts from a C# 4.0 Program
• Getting Started with IronPython
• New Video on Sharepoint and C# by Kathleen McGrath
• IronRuby and IronPython for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 Available

From others at Microsoft

Mitsu

• Read/Write selector in C# 3 then C# 4

Jason Zander

• Announced at TechEd Europe, Teamprise Client Suite Acquisition
• VS2010 Beta 2 Feedback Survey
• Tutorial: Getting Started with TFS in VS2010

Scott Guthrie

• Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
• WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
• VS 2010 Code Intellisense Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
• Searching and Navigating Code in VS 2010 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Scott Hanselman

• Download Podcasts with Powershell
• Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows
• Oredev 2009 - LIVE (now recorded) Closing Panel Video
• Hanselminutes on 9 - Debugging Crash Dumps with Tess Ferrandez and VS2010
• Offline installer for Windows Live Essentials - WLSetup-All.exe
• Using a Bluetooth Jawbone Headset for BT-Audio (Microphone or Speakers) on Windows 7
• Windows 7 with BitLocker and Still Booting To VHD

Brad Abrams

• Lightweight LINQ Parser
• Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update

Dan Fernandez

• Visual Studio Documentary Part 1 & Part 2
• Download Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions

Downloads and Announcements

• New site dedicated to the Rich Internet Application (RIA) tools for Silverlight from Microsoft
• A Tentative Content Plan for MSDN Magazine in 2010