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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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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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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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Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:01 AM

Parallel Computer Platform Dev Center and CTP Announced

The Parallel Computing Platform team has launched the Parallel Computing dev center along with their first Community Technology Preview. A CTP gives you a chance to try a new technology before it is released. The new parallel computing Dev Center will
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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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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:55 PM

Syntax Highlighted Code in Your Blog

I sometimes get questions about how to paste syntax highlighted code from Visual Studio into your blog so that it looks purdy, even when using code from a beta product: var pred = Expression .Lambda< Func < Customer , bool >>( Expression .Equal(
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Monday, November 12, 2007 11:10 AM

Visual C# Team Picture: Fall, 2007

Double click the picture to see the full-sized version. Top Row : Zhe Fu, Luca Bolognese, Theo Yaung, Rusty Miller, Eric Lippert, Wes Dyer, Prakash Balasubramanian, Genevieve Orchard, Esen Tuna, Keith Farmer, Tom Meschter, Don Espen, Steve Kruy, Yuval
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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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Friday, October 26, 2007 2:28 PM

C# Team and Habitat for Humanity

Members of the C# Team had a "Day of Caring" during which we worked for Habitat for Humanity building homes. HFH describes their mission as follows: "[We seek] to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a
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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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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:50 PM

INETA Community Leadership Summit

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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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