Charlie Calvert's Community Blog

After four wonderful years, I’m leaving my position as a Community Manager at Microsoft. I’ve had a wonderful time working with the C# and the .NET communities and will miss you all. I have no immediate plans to continue this blog elsewhere, but if I...

The IronRuby team is pleased to announce version 1.0 RC2! http://ironruby.net/download Direct download link: http://ironruby.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=36931#DownloadId=105584 This release is also accompanied by a preview release...

Welcome to the sixty-second community convergence. This is the RC release issue with links to the latest Visual Studio code. The RC Release of Visual Studio 2010 Jason Zander on the Visual Studio 2010 Release. The F# February 2010 Release Iron Python...

IronPython 2.6.1 comes in two flavors – one that runs on top of .NET 4.0 RC, and one that runs on any other framework starting with .NET 2.0 SP1.  They can be downloaded here: IronPython 2.6.1 RC1 for .NET 2.0 SP1: http://ironpython.codeplex.com...

Microsoft has shipped the RC for Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4! The RC will be made available to the public on Wednesday, February 10, 2010. Jason Zander on the release. The download page

The following new articles have appeared on MSDN: Certificate Expiration in ClickOnce Deployment Building the Contoso Auto Sales Office Business Application Part 1 Building the Contoso Auto Sales Office Business Application Part 2

Welcome to the sixty-first community convergence. I’ve highlighted three new articles by HimaBindu Vejella on IDE enhancements, some articles by C# team member Eric Lippert, and one by Jason Zander, the General Manager for Visual Studio. Visual Studio...

Welcome to the sixtieth community convergence. I’m going to continue to keep this short, but I plan to update more frequently. Eric Lippert: Why are unused using directives not a warning? Sam Ng: The Pain of deploying Primary Interop Assemblies...

If you are new to Visual Studio, you might be interested in these links: Visual Studio Quick Tour of the Integrated Development Environment How to Arrange and Dock Windows How to Navigate Within the Integrated Development Environment Managing Solutions...

Welcome to the fifty-ninth Community Convergence – now shorter than ever! Below you will see the top links for this week. Alexandra Rusina   Getting Information About Objects, Types, and Members with Expression Trees Eric Lippert What’s the difference...

Pedram Rezaei has written a detailed and code centric article on how to create a LINQ provider similar to the LINQ to SQL provider. This article has large amount of specific technical information in it of interest to developers who want to tackle this...

Just a reminder that there will be a code camp coming up in Southern California on January 30th and 31st. Follow this link for details: http://www.socalcodecamp.com/ SoCal Rock and Roll Code Camp: Yeah… It’s like that!

If you are having trouble loading projects and perhaps get an error message like this:  “Project ‘X’ could not be opened because the Microsoft Visual C# 2008 compiler could not be created.” Try passing in these parameters when starting the IDE: devenv...

A couple of us are working on finding a way to surface key links to information in the MSDN library. Perhaps later we will also link to information found throughout the community websites. If we can find the right approach, we might canonize these categorize...

Microsoft Events on MSDN will be hosting a webcast on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time. The event is designed to familiarize you with the new editor extensions that the WPF redesign have helped make possible. You can find more webcasts...

Though they were previewed earlier this month, we have now officially released the first of Windows Azure series of How Do I videos. Below you find a list of the videos that have been created, along with links to their location in the How Do I Video library...

Here are links to a few short video interviews by prebynski with C# MVPs and luminaries speaking while they attended PDC 2009 last week in Los Angeles. This is a chance to hear the interests and opinions of folks who are immersed in the culture and technology...

Data Microsoft SQL Server Library SQL Server Books Online SQL Server Online Resources CTP, Troubleshooting Microsoft MSDN SQL Server Online Resources CTP, Troubleshooting Microsoft TechNet What's New (SQL Server 2008) GettingStarted...

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...

This is the first of three videos showing how Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 provides support for the development and deployment of Azure Services applications. In these short How Do I Videos, I filmed Jim Nakashima as he demonstrated practical techniques...

This is the second in a series of three videos showing how Visual Studio 2010 provides support for the development and deployment of Azure Services applications. In these short How Do I Videos, I filmed Jim Nakashima as he demonstrated practical techniques...

This is the first of three videos showing how Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 provides support for the development and deployment of Azure Services applications. In these short How Do I Videos, I filmed Jim Nakashima as he demonstrated practical techniques...

Microsoft has created an SDK to make it easier for you to write Facebook applications. Resources Read the announcement . Find out more about the .NET Facebook SDK

Karen Liu, the Lead Program Manager for the Visual C# and Visual Basic IDEs, has created a new video on Generate from Usage (GFU), a feature found in Visual Studio 2010, Beta 2. This post recaps what is included in the video, including the sections that...

There have been a number of changes to the MSDN library of late, and to the way it is integrated with Visual Studio 2010. Kathleen McGrath and Mark D'Urso have created a nice little video that walks you through some of the new features such as the classic...