Charlie Calvert's Community Blog

Charlie is Moving On

Charlie Calvert — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:38:56 GMT

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 do engage again online you will probably be able to pick up the thread on my Elvenware site. It is currently very out of date, but hopefully I will find time to refresh it over the coming months:

http://www.elvenware.com/charlie

Thank you for all your support and enthusiasm! Please continue to enjoy writing code and continue to explore the wonderful world of computers!

- Charlie Calvert

IronRuby 1.0 Release Candidate 2

Charlie Calvert — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:41:05 GMT

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 compatible with .NET 4.0 RC:

http://ironruby.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=40175

As IronRuby approaches the final 1.0, these RCs will contain crucial bug fixes and enhancements that IronRuby requires to be a fast and compatible 1.0. Now that IronRuby is in the release-candidate stage, your feedback is even more important. Please use these new binaries as much as you can and report any issues you find here:

http://ironruby.codeplex.com/WorkItem/Create.aspx.

Note: The actual version of the assemblies is "0.9.4.0"; they will be updated to "1.0.0.0" when the last anticipated RC of IronRuby 1.0 is released.

Community Convergence LXII

Charlie Calvert — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:36:51 GMT

Welcome to the sixty-second community convergence. This is the RC release issue with links to the latest Visual Studio code.

Iron Python 2.6.1 RC Now Available

Charlie Calvert — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:45:03 GMT

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/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=40144
IronPython 2.6.1 RC1 for .NET 4.0 RC: http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=40146

Note: The .NET Framework 4.0 RC is required for the latter release and can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a9ef9a95-58d2-4e51-a4b7-bea3cc6962cb&displaylang=en

VS 2010 RC Released

Charlie Calvert — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:51:37 GMT

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.

New Articles on MSDN: ClickOnce, Office 2007 Business Applications

Charlie Calvert — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:32:01 GMT

The following new articles have appeared on MSDN:

Community Convergence LXI

Charlie Calvert — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:48:00 GMT

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 2010 and .NET Framework 4 IDE Enhancements: Part One
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 IDE Enhancements: Part Two
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 IDE Enhancements: Part Three
Eric Lippert: Style follows semantics
Eric Lippert: Calling constructors in arbitrary places
Jason Zander: Favorite VS2010 Features: Dependency Graphs and DGML

Community Convergence LX

Charlie Calvert — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:57:00 GMT

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
Scott Hanselman: DynamicQueryable makes custom LINQ expressions easier
Scott Hanselman: How many PCs have the .NET Framework installed?
Scott Guthrie: About Technical Debates
Scott Guthrie: ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation

Help Me Get Started Using Visual Studio

Charlie Calvert — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:32:14 GMT

If you are new to Visual Studio, you might be interested in these links:

Community Convergence LIX

Charlie Calvert — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:11:38 GMT

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

Kirill Osenkov

Unable to cast COM object … to IVsGlobalUndoCapableUndoManager