Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

blogs.msdn.com — Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 are now available for download. read more...

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Community Convergence XLV

blogs.msdn.com — Welcome to the 45th Community Convergence. I recently reached the two year mark here at Microsoft, and that means it is probably time for me to slip in some changes to my routine. In this post I'll begin that process by taking Community Convergence in a new direction. read more...

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LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators

blogs.msdn.com — This is a second post on the LINQ Set operators, the first being published while LINQ was still in beta. As mentioned in the previous post, there are four LINQ set operators: Union, Intersect, Distinct and Except. Like the other 50 LINQ operators, these methods are designed to allow you to query data which supports the IEnumerable<T> interface. Since all LINQ query expressions, and most LINQ queries, return IEnumerable<T>, these operators are designed to allow you to perform set operations on the results of a LINQ query. In this post I give four highly simplified examples of how to use each of the operators, and then end with a more complex example that shows how the operators might be used in a real world setting. read more...

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Future Focus: Searching and Navigating to Symbols

blogs.msdn.com — C++ PM Boris Jabes has added to our series of articles on features that are being considered for the next version of Visual Studio. In his post, Boris describes a proposed feature that will allow users to "find and navigate to a specific location in their solution." Boris explains that users can type in a string and the IDE will return a list of matching results drawn from the "symbol definitions and files in a solution." The feature is also designed to allow users to explore a solution by posing a potentially vaguely worded query and seeing a set of related results. This new search feature is not language specific, and hence can at least potentially be of use to all developers who use Visual Studio, regardless of whether they implement their programs in C++, C#, Visual Basic, or some other language. read more...

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Lambdas

blogs.msdn.com — Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand. read more...

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Cut Development Time: Use LINQ

jamesmccaffrey.spaces.live.com — When Microsoft employees talk about LINQ publicly, we haven't tended to emphasize how much time you can save by using it. This is perhaps because we don't want LINQ to be labeled as simply another RAD tool designed to save time. Nevertheless, it is becoming clear to me that shorter development cycles may be one of the first major benefits of LINQ to be widely recognized by the community. read more...

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Live Gallery Plugins for Live Writer

gallery.live.com — Use these plugins to enhance live writer. read more...

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Where are the Visual Studio 2008 Keybinding Posters?

blogs.msdn.com — 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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