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June 2008 - Posts

LINQ Farm: Lambdas

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. LINQ has an almost inordinate need for its users to declare a large number of small,
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LINQ Farm: Extension Methods and Scoping

There are a few scoping rules that you must keep in mind when using extensions methods. Problems with scoping and extensions methods are rare, but when you encounter them they are quite vexing. An instance method will always be called before an extension
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Cut Development Time: Use LINQ

When Microsoft employees talk about LINQ publicly, we haven't tended to emphasize how much time you can save by using it. This is perhaps because we don't want LINQ to be labeled as simply another RAD tool designed to save time. Nevertheless, it is becoming
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WPF Farm: Simple WPF

It can be helpful to start from the beginning when working with new technologies. This post explains how to create a minimal WPF application that produces a single window with a gradient in it, as shown in Figure 1. The point of this exercise is to build
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Visual Studio IDE Talk at Tech Ed 2008

I will be giving a talk at Tech Ed 2008, in Orlando Florida Title: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks Time: on Tuesday, June 3, at 10:30 AM. Location: S320A Talk Code: TLA321 Download Materials Related to he talk here . Description: Harness
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