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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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Monday, April 28, 2008 12:15 PM

LINQFarm: Understanding IEnumerable<T>, Part I

The IEnumerable<T> interface is a key part of LINQ to Objects and binds many of its different features together into a whole. This series of posts explains IEnumerable <T> and the role it plays in LINQ to Objects. If you hear people talking
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:57 AM

Community Convergence XLIII

Welcome to the forty-third issue of Community Convergence. The last few weeks have been consumed by the 2008 MVP Summit . During that annual event about 150 C# MVP s and many MVP s from other disciplines descend on Redmond for a technical summit accompanied
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Monday, April 07, 2008 4:49 PM

Charlie's Deck and Demos from his Essence of LINQ Talk

The sample programs and the slides from my Essence of LINQ talk are available on the Code Gallery LINQ Farm resource page. The LINQ Farm Resource Page The Downloads section of the page Direct Link to the Download
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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 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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Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:47 AM

Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers

I've recently updated the list of LINQ Providers found on my Links to LINQ page, accessible from the News section on the left of this blog. I'm sure there are other providers available. Feel free to write me or append a comment if you want to add to this
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Friday, February 22, 2008 12:52 PM

Video of Luke Hoban's In-Depth Look at C# 3.0

Last fall in Barcelona, Spain two PM's from the C# team gave talks on key parts of the new LINQ technology found in Visual Studio 2008: Luca Bolognese : LINQ to SQL: Accessing Relational Data with Language Integrated Query Luke Hoban : Microsoft Visual
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:58 PM

LINQ to SQL and SQL Server 2008

Faisal Mohamood , the LINQ to SQL Program Manager, has posted about the work his team has been doing in preparation for the next release of LINQ to SQL. Faisal says that his team has added support for new T-SQL data types that will be found in SQL Server
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:28 PM

LINQ Books

Books on LINQ LINQ in Action by Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert, Jim Wooley, and Matt Warren Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 by Joseph C. Rattz Professional LINQ (Programmer to Programmer) by Scott Klein LINQ Quickly by Satheesh, N Kumar
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:54 AM

LINQ Farm Seed: Using the Expression Tree Visualizer

The Visual Studio 2008 CSharp samples include several valuable tools that LINQ developers can use to help expedite the development process. One of the is the Expression Tree Visualizer. This tool works in both Visual Studio Express and the other versions
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:08 PM

LINQ Farm Seed 02: Aggregate Operator Part II

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts designed to be read in a few minutes. In the previous seed we used the first overload of the C# 3.0 LINQ Aggregate operator to sum a list of numbers. In this post we'll work with a list of words. The code we will look at
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:00 PM

LINQ Farm Seed I: Aggregate Operator Part I

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts designed to be read in a few minutes. The first seed showed how to list in alphabetical order all the operators used in LINQ to Objects. At the top of the list one found the Aggregate operator. The LINQ Aggregation operator
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