In the previous installment I managed to set up basic communications with the sensor network and try out some Link45 commands using my Super-Simple Serial Console . In order to actually do anything with the sensor data, I would need a function that could...

It started out as a simple project. My children had become interested in basic electrical circuits so I bought them some LEDs , batteries, wire, and solderless breadboard to play around with. I soon found that these components weren't ideal for a number...

Microsoft has just announced that the next Professional Developers Conference (PDC) will be October 2-5, 2007 in Los Angeles, with two days of pre-conference on September 30 and October 1. The last two PDCs were fantastic and this one is likely to be...

As I was putting together a post on IEnumerable and IEnumerator I was reminded of the subtleties of implicit and explicit interface implementations. C# does not support multiple inheritance, but a class has the option of implementing one or more interfaces...

MSDN recently added Wiki functionality to the portion of the site dealing with Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. This already looks like it is going to be a great resource - at the time of this post, there were almost 1000 topics with Community...

In the previous installment I described my decision to build a temperature and humidity sensor network using modules from IButtonLink.com . The heart of the system is the Link45 which connects the PC’s serial port to the sensor network and provides an...

Members of the C# team will be hosting an online chat session about LINQ to SQL on Tuesday, December 12, 2006. Here's the description: The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query...

Visual Studio 2005 includes a new feature to generate stubs for methods in an abstract base class . Here's an example of how it works. Suppose you want to create a class called MyDerivedClass that inherits from an abstract class called MyAbstractClass...

Karen Liu , a C# IDE program manager recently sent me the specs for all of the new C# IDE features in Visual Studio 2005 . As part of my rampup as the new C# PUM, I plan to make my way through this list and blog about some of the more interesting changes...

I like to use my knowledge of technology to solve problems outside of work. In this series I explain how I used C# and the Internet to remotely monitor a propane stove in my cabin. While reading about my adventures you will learn about C#, embedded technology...

Hi. I’m Michael Hopcroft, the new Product Unit Manager for Visual C#. I started the job a few weeks ago and this is my first blog post. Working with the C# team is a dream job for me. I’ve liked C# since the day it came out and used it extensively in...