Expression Blend Book(www.developingfor.net)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 1 year ago

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Chained null checks and the Maybe monad(devtalk.net)

submitted by dmitri(408) 1 year, 8 months ago

A great many programmers have met a situation where, while accessing a nested object property (e.g., person.Address.PostCode), they have to do several null checks. This requirement frequently pops up in XML parsing where missing elements and attributes can return null when you attempt to access them (and subsequently trying to access Value throws a NullReferenceException). In this article, I’ll show how a take on the Maybe monad in C#, coupled with use of extension methods, can be used to improve readability. read more...

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Welcome to the new DotNetKicks(blog.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by javery(5523) 2 years, 4 months ago

Welcome to the new DotNetKicks - Lots of improvements and even more on the way! read more...

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Feedback Wanter: Links to C# Tech Info(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 5 months ago

A couple of us are working on finding a way to surface key links to information in the MSDN library. Perhaps later we will also link to information found throughout the community websites. If we can find the right categorization and the right links, we might canonize these categorize and links on the Learn page of the C# Dev Center. read more...

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Webcast: Visual Studio 2010 Editor with Rich Extensions (blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 5 months ago

Microsoft Events on MSDN will be hosting a webcast on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time. The event is designed to familiarize you with the new editor extensions that the WPF redesign have helped make possible. You can find more webcasts, videos, virtual labs and podcasts by following this link. read more...

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Official Publication of Creating Windows Azure Applications with Visua(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 5 months ago

Though they were previewed earlier this month, we have now officially released the first of Windows Azure series of How Do I videos. Below you find a list of the videos that have been created, along with links to their location in the How Do I Video library. read more...

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Videos of C# Authors at PDC(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 6 months ago

Here are links to a few short video interviews with C# MVPs and luminaries speaking while they attended PDC 2009 last week in Los Angeles. This is a chance to hear the interests and opinions of folks who are immersed in the culture and technology surrounding C#. All three of these interviewees are with authors who are currently working on new books about C#. Hear their take on new technologies such as Azure and Dynamic in C#, as well as their thoughts on the latest developments in existing technologies such as LINQ, WPF and Silverlight. read more...

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Community Convergence LVII(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 6 months ago

Welcome to the fifty-seventh issue of Community Convergence. In this post I’ll focus on new articles from the C# team, as well as events taking place at PDC. read more...

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Videos: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with Jim Nakashima(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 6 months ago

Here are three videos showing how Visual Studio 2010 provides support for the development and deployment of Azure Services applications. In these short How Do I Videos, I filmed Jim Nakashima as he demonstrated practical techniques for quickly deploying applications to the cloud. These videos will eventually be published in the How Do I section of the C# Dev Center. I’m hosting them here for now, so that they will be available in time for PDC. read more...

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Microsoft SDK for Facebook Released(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 6 months ago

Microsoft has created an SDK to make it easier for you to write Facebook applications. read more...

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Tic-Tac-Toe: Open Source Silverlight Game(games.ailon.org)

submitted by ailon(1335) 2 years, 6 months ago

A simple good looking Silverlight 3 game complete with source code. read more...

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How Do I Video on Generate from Usage by Karen Liu(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 6 months ago

Karen Liu, the Lead Program Manager for the Visual C# and Visual Basic IDEs, has created a new video on Generate from Usage (GFU), a feature found in Visual Studio 2010, Beta 2. This post recaps what is included in the video, including the sections on how GFU can be used to enhance the practice of test first development. The video is shot in both VB and C#. Since this is a C# blog, I’ll show only C# code. read more...

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Classic, Lightweight and ScriptFree MSDN Library Views(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 6 months ago

There have been a number of changes to the MSDN library of late, and to the way it is integrated with Visual Studio 2010. Kathleen McGrath and Mark D'Urso have created a nice little video that walks you through some of the new features such as the classic, lightweight and script-free views, as well as the new feedback mechanism. If you have questions about how the new features in the library work you might find that this is a useful way to spend 9 minutes and 36 seconds. read more...

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Bill Wagner on Dynamic Method Bags in C# 4.0(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 6 months ago

C# MVP and wunderkind Bill Wagner has written an article entitled Dynamic Method Bags which is now available on MSDN. Bill explores the new dynamic feature in C# 4.0. Most posts on this subject explain how to use dynamic to call Python, Ruby or Office. In his article, Bill explains how dynamic can be used not to call another language or tool, but to call your own C# objects without directly using the reflection API’s. The solution he provides combines generics, expression tress and dynamic to create a “type that allows developers to add new methods at runtime” and call those methods through dynamic dispatch read more...

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Com interop in C# 4.0: Indexed Properties (blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by samng(135) 2 years, 6 months ago

One of the things I love about my job is that I get to make people happy. How do I do that? By giving them what they want of course! One of the things I don’t like so much about my job is going back on a decision that we made before, and having to revert some of the behavior. Well, we’ve been talking about COM interop in C# 4.0, and are now in the thick of things. Today we’ll chat about a feature which many people have asked for in the past, but we’ve stayed away from until now – Indexed Properties. read more...

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A New Article on Detecting Memory Leaks in .NET Applications(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 6 months ago

MSDN has published an excellent article by Fabrice Marguerie entitled “How to Detect and Avoid Memory and Resource Leaks in .NET Applications.” In the article, the author explains how memory leaks are introduced into .NET applications, and what you can do to discover and eliminate them. The code shown in the article is in C#, but the topics covered will likely be useful to a broad range of .NET developers. read more...

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