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Linq has been shipped with VS2008/.Net 3.5 and is not really new. If more and more people are getting used to its syntax, it’s sometimes hard to imagine all the scenarii where Linq to object can replace the classical way we program. During some...

We now have block and variable support in our very small meta language. Let’s try to use this basic engine to add higher functionalities. .Net 4.0 expression API also brings new instructions such as Loop, Goto, Label, IfThenElse, etc. We will add them...

Reading the first part is mandatory ! The goal is still the same: enhance the C# 4 expression capabilities. Now we have block support, let’s find a way to add variables. We can not really ‘code’ something without them… In our first sample, the...

Since .Net 3.5 and Linq, the C# compiler is capable of generating expression trees instead of standard executable IL. Even if Linq opens the door of meta-programming (using the code to define something else, like a Sql query), we still have a lot of limitations...

I needed some quiet time to finish this article so I took some vacations here (Mauritius Island) Expressions are used to evaluate something. We usually use them in the right side of an affectation or at any place where a value is expected. It can...

Just a quick post to share this project with you. Microsoft France organized a 2 month long internship in Paris to develop a Surface Toolkit. We have provided a bunch of controls, including a Card Game Surface Starter kit that you can see here: The project...

For the last Paris mobility briefing, my colleague Pierre Cauchois asked me to co-animate the Coding4Fun session…hard to refuse. Even if mobile dev is not my every day work, thanks to the .Net Compact Framework, it’s still .Net programming. Here...

Before going into Linq, here is again one of my pictures: Le Louvre by night, Paris When using Linq to objects, you will quickly feel the need to pass some parameters from a method to another but it’s not so easy because each Linq method is not...

Contrarily to the title, this is a serious article ! From 10th to 12th of February Microsoft France have organized the Paris Techdays event. During the developer keynote, I have presented some Surface development features with a funny demo. Here...

We have just finished the french Paris Techdays today. I had organized a Coding4Fun session and here is on of the demo which is...let's say special :p. You can find the code attached to this post.

You can now find the Silverlight 2 RTM version of this pageturn control, still here on codeplex : http://www.codeplex.com/wpfbookcontrol I have also updated the online example showing flickr pictures in a book: http://blogs.msdn.com/mitsu/archive/2008...

Before we go deep into Linq to Sql, I wanted to share with you one of my pictures made last week at Chamonix Mont Blanc from "L'aiguille du midi" during some days off. Ok now let's go. Here is just a little trick but with some interesting patterns...

This piece of code is part of a personal bigger project that I am working on and I think there are interesting thing in it and I wanted to share it with you. I am trying to use generics and type inference to imagine new kind of method prototype. With...

I recently had to write a small Flickr API. I know many .Net API for Flickr already exist but I needed one for a Silverlight application. Whatever, it's only about building some querystrings so I did it by myself. It's been an opportunity to think again...

I have just finished converting the control to silverlight one week away from Silverlight 2 beta 2 release date, so I have been waiting for it ! For people to be able to compare code (quite similar) and behavior between the WPF and the Silverlight...

Get some help with the video on this page: http://blogs.msdn.com/mitsu/archive/2008/05/14/show-your-flickr-pictures-in-a-silverlight-book.aspx

Here is a control that everybody can easily use. This allow you to display Flickr pictures in a blog post or in any web page. For example this set of pictures ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/benjamingauthey/sets/72157604570177365/ ), taken by my friend...

I was getting really bored with testing .ContainsKey() at each time I wanted to read a value from a dictionary. Dictionary < string , string > dico; if (dico.ContainsKey( " key " )) value = dico[ " key " ]; else value = " default " ; A...

Enjoy, Code is coming very soon.. [Update]: code is now available here ! Mitsu Move the mouse cursor around the corners

Hi all, After almost one year of work and organization, I am very happy to share this project with you: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vlinq - new setup fixed (4/17/2008) The Visual Linq query builder is a Visual Studio 2008 addin. It's a designer...

Just a short informative post: David Catuhe, a french MVP from south of France is demoing a Silverlight 3D engine preview... http://www.catuhe.com/NovaLight/NovaLight.aspx His company 'Vertice' is selling the Nova product (a full .Net 3D engine based...

In my previous post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/mitsu/archive/2007/06/21/how-to-implement-a-many-to-many-relationship-using-linq-to-sql.aspx ), I had proposed a simple solution for implementing many-to-many relationships using Linq to Sql. Actually, this...

Shawn asked me in my last post about GroupByMany how to use it dynamically. The answer is not easy. So here is a new post to answer to this interesting question. First you must learn a few things about being dynamic with linq. There is a very good...

Here is a beautiful WPF application that is using my WPFBookControl : http://mangareader.wordpress.com/ It's very pleasant for me to see this control in a real world application. You can also notice how the design can be nice compared to what a developer...

Video: WPF Object dumper demo The official C# 3.0 samples are providing a very useful ObjectDumper class that allows displaying any kind of object on the console output. All the child properties are also displayed and you can even define how deep you...