Tim Ng

Hey there! In this post, I'll continue describing some of the things that are interesting about the VB compiler, especially related to expression trees and the consumption of expression trees in your LINQ provider. Again, this may not be too interesting Read More...

Last time, I showed how you can use the Cast() extension method defined on IEnumerable/IEnumerable(Of T) to do an element conversion for a sequence that implements one of the enumerable interfaces. Today I want to talk about the ToDictionary extension Read More...

If you take a look at the set of extension methods offered on IEnumerable (and IEnumerable(Of T)), you'll find that there are plenty of very interesting extension methods. One of them is the Cast() extension method. What does this extension method do? Read More...

Note : I plan to post this blog on the VB team blog eventually. However, because of the length and complexity, I'm posting this up on my blog for now to hopefully get some eyes on it so that I won't make a fool of myself on the team blog :) Please feel Read More...

Hey guys, just a quick note to let you know that my article on lambda expressions has been published on MSDN magazine. I'll be updating this blog (actually, probably the VB team blog ) with more information on lambda expressions that I didn't have time Read More...

One of the new features that we are adding to the language is the concept of a private partial method. In order to discover the rationale behind this feature, let's consider a scenario where a designer generates some code and wishes to allow the user Read More...