Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

December 2006 - Posts

Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:55 AM

Community Convergence XVI

Welcome to the sixteenth Community Convergence. This column comes out about once a week and is designed to help keep you informed about the status of the C# development team. As you probably all know by now, the December Orcas CTP has become the January
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 11 Comments
Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:57 PM

LINQ Farm: LINQ Sets

This is the sixth in a series of articles on LINQ. In this post the focus will be on the LINQ Set operators. Near the end of the post I include a short section on the importance of choosing the best operator for a particular task. Please see the links
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 4 Comments
Filed under: ,

Attachment(s): LINQQueryLister04.zip
Thursday, December 28, 2006 6:35 PM

The Mess is All Right, the Trouble with Livestock

The New York Times carries a heartening article on the benefits of messiness . It features a quote from Einstein: "“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?” There are also some interesting data such as the fact
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:47 AM

New Gadgets for Live Spaces

There are a number of new gadgets to play with on live.com . You can embed most of these gadgets on your live.com home page, or on your live spaces home page . The new Soapbox Gadget allows you to embed movies from http://soapbox.msn.com . There is also
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, December 18, 2006 3:11 AM

Notes on the January CTP

The January CTP (formerly known as the December CTP) should be out shortly after the new year. We are sorry about the delay; it is due in part to the huge December 14 storm that knocked out the power for over a million residents here in the Seattle area.
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 32 Comments
Filed under: , ,
Monday, December 18, 2006 3:11 AM

Installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 and the May LINQ CTP

Now that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 is out I wanted to post a brief note about using it with May LINQ CTP . When reading this post, please note that this is not an official Microsoft advisory, but simply the result of my personal experience. When
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 6 Comments
Filed under: , ,
Monday, December 18, 2006 3:11 AM

Community Convergence XV

This week the focus is on the launch of Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (VS 2005 SP1) and the impending releases of the January Orcas CTP. (The December CTP has been delayed into the first week of January.) There will also be a beta of an update to
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 4 Comments
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:20 AM

C# LINQ to SQL Chat Dec 12, 2006

Chat Topic: C# LINQ to SQL Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Unique Users : 106 Questions : 104 Forum : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=123&SiteID=1 Additional Information: http://csharp.net , http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa904594.aspx
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 18 Comments
Filed under: ,
Monday, December 11, 2006 2:38 AM

Community Convergence XIV

There will be an hour long public chat on LINQ to SQL and related technologies held Tuesday, Dec 12 at 1 PM Pacific time. Follow this link to see your local time for this chat. LINQ is a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that provides native C#
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:48 AM

SpaceMonger and Treemaps

A few days ago I had the classic "out of free space on drive C" error on my main computer. I wanted to find what was taking up space so I could cull the waste from my system. My friend Anson Horton pointed me to a tool on the web called SpaceMonger. Within
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 5 Comments
Filed under: ,
Monday, December 04, 2006 2:44 AM

Community Convergence XIII

Welcome to the thirteenth Community Convergence . New posts by team members, preparations for the December CTP, and the impending release of Whidbey Service Pack 1 top the news this week. I should also mention that another public chat with the C# team
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 3 Comments
Saturday, December 02, 2006 8:46 AM

LINQ Farm: Focus on Grouping

This is the fifth post in a series of articles on LINQ and query expressions. LINQ will be part of Visual Studio Orcas . It provides a simple means of querying data. This article focuses on grouping information from a query into related sets of data.
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 9 Comments
Filed under: ,
 
Page view tracker