Color Schemes for the Visual Studio Editor(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years ago

Developers with a bit of time on their hands have built some beautiful color schemes for the Visual Studio Editor. You can save download these settings files to your ...\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Settings directory. You can then access them by following the instructions in this post read more...

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Where are the Visual Studio 2008 Keybinding Posters?(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years ago

Download the posters in PDF format here: * Visual C# 2008 Keybinding Reference Poster * Visual Basic 2008 Keybinding Reference Poster * Visual C++ 2008 Keybinding Reference Poster * Download the C# Keybindings in a spreadsheet. Note that many of the keybindings stem from Visual Studio classes such Edit, Project, View, Window and Refactor. To see the complete list of methods for these classes, bring up the command window (Ctrl-W, A) and type File followed by a period. IntelliSense on all the methods for the File object will appear in the command window, just as if you were working with a C# class in the editor window. You can also see this classes in the find/command box on the toolbar (Ctrl + /). Inside the find/command box, type the the greater than symbol followed by the word Find and a period: >Find. read more...

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Welcome to the forty-fourth Community Convergence.(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years ago

Welcome to the forty-fourth Community Convergence. I want to remind every one that the C#, VB and dynamic language teams are still hiring. If you are an expert manager, developer or test engineer, please look at our listings and see if there is a place where you might belong. This is an excellent opportunity to participate in a first rate development process and to meet and work with some of the best developers in the world. read more...

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VCS Team Links for May 22, 2008(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years ago

Rather than place the links to the most recent C# team content directly in Community Convergence, I have moved them here. This posts covers the last few weeks of posts from the C#, F# and related teams. read more...

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Visual Studio Survey(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years ago

A new Visual Studio survey has been created and we would like your feedback. This survey focuses on learning more about the types of applications you are creating, which tools and technologies you are using, and how we can improve our content and code examples to better meet your needs. There are also questions about how you access online help, and some questions about the .NET Framework docs. read more...

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Build Games for the Zune: XNA Game Studio 3.0 Tech Preview(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years ago

If you want to program games for the Zune you'll need either Visual Studio C# 2008 Express or Visual Studio Standard Edition or higher with C# installed. This CTP works only for Zune and Windows, and does not support XBox 360. However, it runs side by side with Visual Studio 2005 and XNA 2.0, which does support XBox 360. The CTP does not work in 64 bit at this time. read more...

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Microsoft C#, VB, F#, Ruby and Python Teams are Hiring(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years ago

The C#, VB, F#, Python and Ruby teams are looking for program managers, developers and testers who want to come work at Microsoft. The languages I've listed are among the most popular in use today, and Microsoft is in the forefront of the innovations that are driving the future of computer language development. Though not all our plans public at this time, I can say that we are involved in developing many exciting new technologies. The C# team has just finished shipping LINQ, which is provides developers with a powerful new technology for querying data. F# is exciting new language which will ship in the near future. There is surge of energy in the development world about dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python, and of course VB is one of the most popular languages in the world, as it has been for many years and will continue to be in the future. read more...

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Charlie Speaking in Southern California(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years ago

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 will do VB presentations at the same set of meetings. read more...

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LINQFarm: Understanding IEnumerable<T>, Part I(blogs.msdn.com)

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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 about IEnumerable<T>, and sometimes wished you better understood its significance, then you should find this text helpful. read more...

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Community Convergence XLIII(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years, 1 month ago

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# MVPs and many MVPs from other disciplines descend on Redmond for a technical summit accompanied by fun and games at local restaurants and hotels. Below I include a summary of the event by Jeremy D. Miller. One of the highlights of the event is a day in which the C# MVPs hear directly from the team about our plans for the future. read more...

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Slides and Demos from Essence of LINQ Talk(blogs.msdn.com)

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The sample programs and the slides from my Essence of LINQ talk are available on the Code Gallery LINQ Farm resource page. read more...

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Charlie will be giving a talk entitled The Essence of LINQ(blogs.msdn.com)

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Explore the essential technologies that establish LINQ as a unique and important new tool for developers who want to query data. By looking at a series of code samples, attendees will learn that LINQ is integrated, unitive, declarative, hierarchical, extensible, transformative, and composable. These principles illustrate why LINQ has quickly been established as an important new development tool. Other topics covered in the talk include deferred execution, lambda expressions, extension methods, expression trees and the IQueryable<T> and IEnumerable<T> interfaces. The goal of the talk is to give developers a practical understanding of why LINQ is useful, and how it can be used to improve our development process. read more...

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Community Convergence XLII(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years, 1 month ago

One thing that stands out from our recent community review is how many wonderful people there are in the C# community. But you don't need to study our statistics to see that. All you need do is click through the links listed below in this week's edition of Community Convergence. Even when the C# team is heads down working on new code, stalwart community types like Eric Lippert and Ed Maurer can find time to engage us with a series of interesting posts. Out in the broader C# community, I've found dazzling material from Tomas Petricek, Joe Duffy, Chuck J, Greg Young, and many others. Thank you all. Your great work is the real evidence of the health of the C# community. read more...

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Anders Hejlsberg Film Festival: The C# and other VSL Teams at the Movi(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years, 1 month ago

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. read more...

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Sample Code for Games, P2P Apps, Vista Tools, Web Services for Flickr,(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years, 2 months ago

A number of interesting sample applications have been released over the last few months. These include Sample code for building Peer 2 Peer applications on Vista, a toolkit for developing Facebook applications, interfaces for web services from Digg, YouTube, Amazon, Flickr and other popular sites, WPF tools and Sample Games. read more...

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Understanding the Technical Book Market(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 4 years, 2 months ago

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, lots of developers are still writing batch files, it just so happens that the book-market for that syntax is small. Changes in the C/C++ market are slow, which means that developers stick with tried and true books for those very popular languages rather than rushing out to buy new texts. Nevertheless, it is interesting to at least view this data, especially if you happen to be interested in technical books or trends in the broader developer landscape. read more...

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