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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:36 PM

Charlie Speaking in Southern California

I will be presenting on C# and LINQ three times in Southern California next week at a series of user group meetings. The events will be held in the San Diego and the Los Angeles area . Lisa Feigenbaum will be flying down from Redmond with me, and she
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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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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 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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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:35 PM

Traveling to Speak on LINQ in San Jose

This event has been canceled! I will not be in San Jose on the morning of Monday, December 10 for a free Visual Studio 2008 Celebration put on by Microsoft and Falafel Software . Other speakers at the event will include Lino Tadros of Falafel, and Todd
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 10:28 PM

Community Convergence XXXV

Welcome to the thirty-fifth edition of Community Convergence. This week we have an interview with C# language maven Mads Torgersen. He talks with Joe Armstrong, the inventor of the Erlang programming language. Through their conversation we get to relive
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:55 PM

Open Source Initiative Approves Microsoft Licenses

The Open Source Initiative has approved two of Microsoft's licenses . This is important because it gives them legitimacy in the open source community. The licenses were formally known as the Microsoft Permissive License and the Microsoft Community License.
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Monday, September 24, 2007 8:58 AM

C# vs VB: Charlie on .NET Rocks!

It was the C# team vs the Visual Basic team last week on .NET Rocks , as I went mano-a-mano in a grueling contest with VB Community maven Beth Massi on the .NET Rocks radio show! Well, all right, actually Beth is very much a woman, so we went senora a
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Monday, June 04, 2007 9:35 PM

Tech-Ed 2007: Day 1

It’s the end of the first day at Tech Ed 2007. I flew into Orlando yesterday, taking the 6 am flight from Seattle. We flew through Atlanta and landed in Florida only a little over an hour past schedule. Not a bad experience -- given the state of our transportation
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:10 PM

C# Language and Compiler Team Chat, May 7, 2007

Chat Topic: C# Team Chat Date: Monday, May 07, 2007 Unique Users : 112 Questions Submitted : 61 Charlie Calvert-MSFT (Moderator): Welcome to the C# compiler chat. I'm Charlie Calvert, the C# Community PM. Charlie Calvert-MSFT (Moderator): We have the
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Friday, March 23, 2007 10:03 PM

Upcoming C# Chats

In April and May the C# Team will have three public chats. April 23, 2007, 11 AM Pacific Time C# Visual Studio IDE Chat : Talk about C# IntelliSense for LINQ. Discuss what else is planned for Visual Studio Orcas. Plus: Code snippets, enhanced IntelliSense,
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:31 PM

Custom Iterator's Article by Bill Wagner on the Developer Center

On the Developer Center there is a new article by Bill Wagner about Custom Iterators and the Yield statement. Bill is one of the most skilled technical writers in the industry. His excellent book Effective C# , topped the Amazon technical book list when
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:43 PM

January Orcas CTP Now Available

The January Orcas CTP went out last night about 8:30 Pacific time. It is available both as a regular install , and on a virtual machine . I have not had a chance to install it yet, so I can't give too many details of exactly what is available. However,
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Monday, January 08, 2007 8:41 AM

LINQ and Simplicity

I've been thinking this week about the impact that LINQ will have on the development world. If LINQ succeeds, it will change the way we think about programming. The team's ambitions for LINQ are large. As the community PM for C#, my job is fairly obvious:
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