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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:46 PM

Future Focus II: Call Hierarchy

The success of the first Future Focus post has made it easy for us to continue sharing our plans for the future of the C# language. The intelligent and thoughtful suggestions we received from the community about the Dynamic Lookup feature have had a significant
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 20 Comments
Monday, November 19, 2007 5:02 PM

Connect to a SQL Database and Use the LINQ to SQL Designer

To begin working with LINQ to SQL in Visual Studio 2008 you will need a database that you can query and a copy of MS SQL Server or SQL Express. In this post, I'm going to focus on SQL Express since it is free and since it gets installed by default when
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Friday, October 26, 2007 12:50 PM

Orcas Beta 2 VPC's to Expire November 1, 2007

I use one of the Beta 2 VPC's regularly, and so I was interested to learn that it will expire prematurely on November 1, 2007. This is not Orcas itself that will expire, but the entire OS. If you have any projects or data that you are keeping on one of
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 1 Comments
Saturday, October 13, 2007 4:19 PM

Looking for Input on Visual Studio Content

Kathleen McGrath and the folks who create the documentation for Visual Studio are running a survey to get feedback from users. Here is your chance to comment on the various types of online documentation provided by Visual Studio. Several different types
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 2 Comments
Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:47 AM

Community Convergence XXX

Welcome to the thirtieth Community Convergence. This edition has a wide range of articles on numerous topics and is not quite so narrowly focused on LINQ as most of the recent posts have been. The C# team has some wonderful bloggers, and one of the best
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 0 Comments
Monday, July 30, 2007 9:16 AM

Updatable Beta 2 ReadMe's for VS, Express, .NET Framework and MSDN Available Online

I often want to find the readme's for a beta after it has shipped. This is helpful both because they form a useful reference and because the team will occasionally update them after the release of the beta. Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Readme http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/d/1/dd18043a-fe86-4f57-ac22-791b30e6f04b/VSReadme.htm
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:09 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Released

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 was released to the web for download today. The releases are available both as regular installs and as VPC images . If you choose the regular installation, you should run this script to "ensure that the installation of .NET Framework
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:43 AM

LINQ to SQL Introductory Video

This video shows the basic steps required to create a LINQ to SQL video using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1 (aka as Orcas Beta 1). You will be introduced to following concepts: Using the LINQ to SQL designer to map data in your database to classes in your
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Monday, May 21, 2007 1:16 AM

Silverlight and C# in Orcas Beta 1

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Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:44 AM

February/March Orcas CTP Now Available

The February CTP (aka as the March CTP) is now available for download as a regular install and as a virtual PC . Here is a video that serves as an introduction to the CTP. FebCtp Video: Stream it FebCtp Video: Download Video Text overview from the install
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 30 Comments
Monday, December 18, 2006 3:11 AM

Notes on the January CTP

The January CTP (formerly known as the December CTP) should be out shortly after the new year. We are sorry about the delay; it is due in part to the huge December 14 storm that knocked out the power for over a million residents here in the Seattle area.
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Monday, December 18, 2006 3:11 AM

Installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 and the May LINQ CTP

Now that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 is out I wanted to post a brief note about using it with May LINQ CTP . When reading this post, please note that this is not an official Microsoft advisory, but simply the result of my personal experience. When
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:50 PM

Problem Opening WPF XAML Projects in Visual Studio 2005

A friend of mine sent me a WPF XAML project for use in Visual 2005 that gave me the error "This project type is not supported by this installation" when I tried to open it. I had the same error when I tried to open some other WPF demo projects that shipped
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Saturday, November 11, 2006 5:05 PM

Charlie Calvert's Technical Blog Index

This is index to the various technical posts I have created for this blog. As I add to each section, I will update this page. At this time I have two series of posts going, one on LINQ , and one on generics . I intend to keep working on both sections,
Posted by Charlie Calvert | 11 Comments
 
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