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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:19 AM

Upcoming Talks by Charlie

I will be giving a talk entitled The Essence of LINQ in Seattle and Milwaukee over the coming week. Wisconsin .NET User Group Date : Saturday, April 5, 2008 Event : Deeper in .NET 2008 Location : Milwaukee Marriott West Seattle Netda User Group : Date
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:46 PM

Community Convergence XLII

Welcome to the forty-second issue of Community Convergence. The last few weeks have found me working hard and late. We have had a successful internal C# community review, and that means I have been gathering statistics on all the projects we've been working
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Friday, March 28, 2008 11:09 PM

Anders Hejlsberg Film Festival: The C# and other VS Language Teams at the Movies

It's a bit rainy and snowy today in Redmond. What an excellent time to curl up by the fire and watch a movie! Here are some suggestions. Videos by Anders Anders Hejlsberg, Herb Sutter, Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman: Software Composability and the Future
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:45 PM

Sample Code for Games, P2P Apps, Vista Tools, Web Services for Flickr, MySpace, Digg and YouTube

A number of interesting sample applications have been released for C#, VB and C++ developers over the last few months. These include C# Sample code for building Peer 2 Peer applications on Vista A C# toolkit for developing Facebook applications C# interfaces
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:35 PM

Understanding the Technical Book Market

Mike Hendrickson from O'Reilly has published a survey of the technical book market . As when viewing the TIOBE site, I think it is wrong to extrapolate any broad conclusions about the development languages market from the data you see here. For instance,
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:01 PM

Preview of a C# 3.0 Book by Bruce Eckel and Jamie King

I mention the preview of their book that Jamie King and Bruce Eckel have made available as a free download on the MindView website in my latest Community Convergence post. However, I did not describe its contents, and so I thought I would take a moment
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:43 AM

Community Convergence XLI

Welcome to the forty-first Community Convergence. The big news this week is that we have moved Future Focus , our peek at features that might appear in the next version of Visual Studio, to the Code Gallery . To seed our efforts on this new platform we
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:46 PM

Future Focus II: Call Hierarchy

The success of the first Future Focus post has made it easy for us to continue sharing our plans for the future of the C# language. The intelligent and thoughtful suggestions we received from the community about the Dynamic Lookup feature have had a significant
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