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Thursday, November 30, 2006 8:02 AM

Controlling Outlook 2007 with C# and Visual Studio Tools for Office

This post describes how to use C# and the Visual Studio Tools for Office to program Outlook 2007. The focus is on showing the preliminary steps necessary to programmatically run a set of Outlook rules. Background Before coming to work at Microsoft in
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 7 Comments
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 1:29 AM

C# IDE Chat, November 28, 2006

These transcripts will eventually be published here , but while we're waiting for that to occur, I'll post a copy here in my blog so that people can view it. Chat Topic: C# IDE ( http://csharp.net , http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie ) Date: Tuesday, November
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:52 PM

Transcript from the November 14, 2006 C# Language Chat

These transcripts are eventually published here , but while we're waiting for that to occur, I'll post a copy here in my blog so that people can view it. Chat Topic: The C# Language ( http://csharp.net , http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie ) Date: Tuesday,
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:05 AM

Surprise Lake

In early October of this year (2006), Margie and I took a hike to Surprise Lake in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness near Steven's Pass. Figure 1: The Alpine Lakes sign on the Surprise Creek Trail. The lakes are part of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:35 AM

INETA and User Groups

Finding C# and .NET user groups is easy. The key is to use INETA , or CodeZone . You can find links to both these sites on the MSDN Community Center . In this short post I will talk some about INETA. INETA is a good resource for all information related
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:53 PM

Community Convergence XII

Welcome to the twelfth Community Convergence . Please go here to post comments. This edition of Community Convergence is dedicated to Robert Altman. There is an IDE chat planned for Tuesday, November 28, at 1 PM Pacific time. Click here for help localizing
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 3 Comments
Sunday, November 19, 2006 6:12 PM

LINQ Farm: Using Distinct and Avoiding Lambdas

This is the fourth in a series of articles on LINQ . This article focuses on an important operator from the list of 49 LINQ operators available in the May CTP. This operator, called Distinct() , is different from the other operators we have seen because
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Attachment(s): LINQQueryLister02.zip
Friday, November 17, 2006 6:21 PM

Video with Peter Hallam: Automatic Properties

Here is a new video Peter Hallam and I shot in his office. We started off talking about a new feature called automatic properties that will be part of the Orcas release of Visual Studio. The discussion then turns to the history and evolution of the C#
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 11 Comments
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:50 PM

Problem Opening WPF XAML Projects in Visual Studio 2005

A friend of mine sent me a WPF XAML project for use in Visual 2005 that gave me the error "This project type is not supported by this installation" when I tried to open it. I had the same error when I tried to open some other WPF demo projects that shipped
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:05 PM

Community Convergence XI

Welcome to the eleventh Community Convergence . Change has blown through the CSharp Developer Center over the last few weeks. If you are a writer or developer who is interested in contributing to the C# community, please read on. I will devote most of
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 0 Comments
Saturday, November 11, 2006 5:05 PM

Charlie Calvert's Technical Blog Index

This is index to the various technical posts I have created for this blog. As I add to each section, I will update this page. At this time I have two series of posts going, one on LINQ , and one on generics . I intend to keep working on both sections,
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 11 Comments
Saturday, November 11, 2006 5:42 PM

The LINQ Farm: Query Operators

This article describes simple ways to query an in-memory collection or "table" using LINQ query expressions. The focus will be on a particular part of a query expression called a query operator. Query operators such as select , where , join and groupby
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Attachment(s): LINQQueryLister.zip
Friday, November 10, 2006 5:51 PM

Windows Sidebar and other Recent Links

Quick links to various items in the news: There is a fun video here on creating gadgets using the Windows Sidebar. It turns out that almost anyone who can write a little HTML can create a Windows Sidebar gadget. Here is the API for creating Sidebar gadgets.
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Monday, November 06, 2006 7:04 AM

Community Convergence X

Welcome to the tenth Community Convergence release. If you are reading this on the front page of the C# Developer Center you can enter comments in my blog. Anders Hejlsberg and Karen Liu are featured at Tech Ed Europe this week. You can find the latest
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 7 Comments
 
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