January 2007 - Posts

• Free Food! And Meet The Compiler Guy! And Win an XBOX 360!

  FYI, I will be live and in person available for questions about C# 3.0, working at Microsoft, relationship advice or anything else you want to talk to me about at the following times and locations: Monday February 5th, 7:00 to 9:00 PM University of Waterloo Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:21 PM by Eric Lippert | 3 Comments

• Lambda Expressions vs. Anonymous Methods, Part Three

  Last time I said that I would describe a sneaky trick whereby you can get variable type inference out of a lambda by using method type inference. First off, I want to again emphasize that the reason we are adding so many type inferencing features to C# Read More... Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 9:45 AM by Eric Lippert | 12 Comments Filed under: C#, Lambda Expressions

• Lambda Expressions vs. Anonymous Methods, Part Two

  We interrupt the discussion of how the difference between lambda expression and anonymous method convertibility leads to potential performance problems in the compiler to answer a user question. Within hours of yesterday's post readers Raymond Chen and Read More... Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:40 PM by Eric Lippert | 4 Comments Filed under: C#, Lambda Expressions

• Lambda Expressions vs. Anonymous Methods, Part One

  As you know by now if you've been reading this blog for a while, I am incredibly excited about adding lambda expressions to C# 3.0. I thought I'd talk a bit today about an incredibly subtle difference between C# 2.0 anonymous methods and C# 3.0 lambda Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:53 AM by Eric Lippert | 12 Comments Filed under: C#, Lambda Expressions

• The horror! The horror!

  Jeff "Coding Horror" Atwood has many nice things to say about my blog and one not so nice thing. Thanks Jeff! Much appreciated. And thanks for the links. (Jeff did not link to my most popular post ever , but he's probably not an eleven year old girl.) Read More... Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 3:22 PM by Eric Lippert | 6 Comments Filed under: Non-computer