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Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:49 AM

Expression Tree Basics

Newcomers to LINQ often find expression trees difficult to grasp. In this post I hope to show that the subject is not quite as difficult as it might appear at first. Any reader who has an intermediate level understanding of LINQ should find the material
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:15 PM

Community Convergence XL

Welcome to the fortieth issue of Community Convergence. This week we have two new releases of note: We have created a new regular post called Future Focus that is designed to keep the community aware of the C# Team's long term plans for the language.
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 3 Comments
Monday, January 28, 2008 2:33 PM

Code Gallery goes Live: New Site for Samples

Code Gallery, a new site for sharing samples from Microsoft and the Community is now live: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ . Soma has posted about this site, and the C# Developer Center is tracking a list of popular releases on its front page in the section
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Friday, January 25, 2008 3:28 PM

Seattle Code Camp this Weekend

Just a reminder to community members in the Seattle area that there will be a free Code Camp here this weekend put on by members of the local community. This is a great chance for you to learn about the latest technologies in Visual Studio 2008 and other
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Friday, January 25, 2008 12:10 PM

Future Focus I: Dynamic Lookup

by Charlie Calvert and Mads Torgersen What is Future Focus? This is the first of a series of monthly posts designed to give insight into the C# team’s current plans for future versions of Visual Studio. Each post will highlight one or more key subjects
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:32 AM

Microsoft User Research Study for C# Developers

Andrew Nichols at Microsoft Research asked me to post the following for him. It is request for developers local to the Seattle area to help with testing our products. This seems like a good opportunity for the community, so here is his message: Microsoft
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:42 PM

Community Convergence XXXIX

Welcome to the XXXIX issue of Community Convergence. The big news this week is that Microsoft has begun releasing source code for the .NET Framework libraries. Shawn Burke explains how to configure Visual Studio so that you can step into the source. The
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 6 Comments
Friday, January 11, 2008 10:07 AM

A New Microsoft Web Site for ISV's in the Middle East and Africa (MEA)

Microsoft ISV’s, partners and developers in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region will want to visit a new web site that provides pointers to a wide selection of relevant programs, events, training sessions, communities, blogs and downloads. This technical
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 5:34 PM

TerraServer Sample: A LINQ Provider

Over the holidays Alex Turner, Mary Deyo and I added a new sample to the downloadable version of the CSharp samples that accompany Visual Studio 2008. This sample is called the LinqToTerraServerProvider , and it appears in a sub-directory called WebServiceLinqProvider
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:46 AM

Community Convergence XXXVIII

Welcome to the thirty-eighth Community Convergence. These posts are designed to keep you in touch with the activities of the C# team. We have a new blogger. Ed Maurer is the Compiler Dev Lead for the C# team. He's going to be blogging about the compiler,
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