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Saturday, November 07, 2009 3:45 PM
HDI Video: Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010 with Karen Liu
span.squiggle { color: red; text-decoration: underline;} .listing { font-weight: bold } .figure { font-weight: bold } .note { font-weight: italic; background: lightgray; border: 1px solid black; } Karen Liu, the Lead Program Manager for the Visual C#
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Monday, November 02, 2009 3:49 PM
New Article on Detecting Memory Leaks . NET Applications
MSDN has published an excellent article by Fabrice Marguerie entitled “ How to Detect and Avoid Memory and Resource Leaks in .NET Applications .” In the article, the author explains how memory leaks are introduced into .NET applications, and what you
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Sunday, November 01, 2009 12:54 PM
CSharp “How Do I Videos (Podcasts)” for the Zune Software
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:38 AM
VSL at DevConnections
The following talks will be given by Visual Studio Languages team members at the DevConnections Conference in Las Vegas. Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Title Speaker 10:00am - 11:00am VMS01: The Future of C# Charlie Calvert 11:15am - 12:15pm VMS02: Future
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:41 PM
Running IronPython Scripts from a C# 4.0 Program
IronPython is a scripting language hosted on the .NET platform. This posts shows how you can use the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and the new C# 4.0 dynamic keyword to call an IronPython script from a C# program. Before going any further, it might be
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 6:03 PM
Getting Started with IronPython
pre.myclass {color:black; background:lightgray} I recently spent some time getting IronPython up and running on my system; I will review what I learned in this post. Hosted inside an interpreter, Python belongs to the same family of scripting tools as
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Monday, October 19, 2009 1:21 PM
Community Convergence LVI
Welcome to the fifty-sixth community convergence. As you probably know by now, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has been released on MSDN and will be available to the general public on Wednesday, October 21, 2009. I’ve worked with the team to create a wide range
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 10:18 AM
The XNA Role Playing Game Starter Kit
In my spare time I’ve been looking at the C#code for the XNA Role Playing Game starter kit . This kit is not new, but I’m interested in Role Playing Games (RPGs), so I thought I’d keep some notes on what I’m learning as I play with it. Though not especially
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Monday, September 21, 2009 2:05 PM
.NET University is Live
Doug Turnure and Mark Dunn just reopened the .NET University site. This resource includes approximately 40 developer-oriented presentation kits that include slides, speaker notes, demos, demo scripts and webcast videos. You can use these materials
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Monday, August 31, 2009 9:19 AM
Community Convergence LV
Welcome to the fifty-fifth release of Community Convergence. The big news this week is the release of an updated version of CodeRush Xpress , version 9.2. This upgrade to the popular set of free enhancements to the VS IDE has important performance and
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Friday, August 28, 2009 1:46 PM
Tech Republic Posts a Review of Essential LINQ
On the Tech Republic web site Justin James has written a review of Essential LINQ , the book Dinesh Kulkarni and I wrote about the key features of LINQ such as LINQ to Objects LINQ to SQL LINQ to XML We also touch on important subjects such as the Entity
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Friday, August 28, 2009 12:47 PM
CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Ships
The free CodeRush Xpress from DevExpress provides C# and VB developers with powerful extensions to Visual Studio. These features include editing and refactoring tools that make it easier for you to quickly produce well designed code. Version 9.2 of CodeRush
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Monday, August 24, 2009 12:47 PM
Soma Blog on New Features in C# 4.0
Just a quick note to point out that Soma posted on new features in C# 4.0 and VB 10.0. Both compilers will be part of Visual Studio 2010 . Various team members responded to questions on the post, so there is additional information in the comments section
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Friday, August 21, 2009 8:55 AM
Community Convergence LIV
Welcome to the fifty-fourth edition of Community Convergence. The number of posts from the C# team is a bit sparse right now since so many folks are heads down on C# 4.0. There was a little flurry of excitement among some of us on the team when Soma posted
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Friday, August 14, 2009 1:15 PM
Community Convergence LIII
Welcome to the fifty-third edition of Community Convergence. Here at Microsoft the C# team is still busy polishing C# 4.0 so that is shines and glistens. Below I provide some links to recent articles of interest by C# team developers, other Microsoft
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