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XNA Game Studio 3.0

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:01:20 GMT

The good folks who put together our gaming tools have released XNA Game Studio 3.0.

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

Functional .NET - LINQ as a Monad

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:40:29 GMT

As part of my talk at the Richmond Code Camp earlier in October, I had the opportunity to talk about how to implement functional aspects in C# 3.0. This talk revolved around such concepts as from mutable to immutable, from inheritance to functional composition, and the mind shift that is required. Part of this discussion involved very briefly a talk about monads. It's a very misunderstood part of computer science and one of the most powerful concepts to learn. Much like continuation passing style, this style is often maligned as a result. But, let's work to change that.

Visual Studio Snippet Designer

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:16:23 GMT

Matthew Manela, an engineer on our Online Tools team, has created and released a free, community-based tool called the Snippet Designer. His tool is a Visual Studio add-in that allows you to create and edit snippets from inside the IDE.

Visual Studio snippet designer

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Recently Microsoft released source code and compiled version of previously internal tool, that helps to create and manage code snippets in Visual Studio IDE

Snippet Designer for Visual Studio Released!

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:01:11 GMT

An open source plug-in for Visual Studio which adds the ability to edit code snippets in a rich integrated way. It also adds the Snippet Explorer tool window which allows you to easily search for snippet files on your computer.

Using SQL CE with LINQ to SQL

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:36:41 GMT

Shows how to correctly use LINQ to SQL with SQL CE.

Improve CollectionView Sorting Performance in WPF

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:24:46 GMT

A simple technique to minimize the number of refreshes to a collection view by using the DeferRefresh method.

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

Visual Studio Survey

Fri, 23 May 2008 09:31:02 GMT

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.

Closures and Pass by Reference

Thu, 01 May 2008 02:26:43 GMT

What happends when you use pass by reference and closures in the same method?

spec# & dbc

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:47:09 GMT

For everyone!

Combing Silverlight2 and JavaScript

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:10:12 GMT

Silverlight 2 allows you to combine a webpages JavaScript code with Silverlight .NET Code. For example you can call a C# method from JavaScript and call a JavaScript function from C#. This posts shows how this is done and demonstrates it with a nifty little web page.

xUnit.net 1.0 RC3 Released Today

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Link to Brad Wilson's blog, xUnit 1.0 is feature complete!

Why Silverlight 2 Deep Zoom Really is Something New

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:16:02 GMT

"The reactions to [Deep Zoom] have fallen into two groups. Some folks say it's incredible, and some say they were impressed when they saw it in 2005, was called Google Maps (and zoomed all the way from outer space to their house). The unimpressed folks point out that there are other Flash applications that handle this, too, like Zoomify and Zoomarama. Haven't we seen this before?"

Lazy Prime Number Sieve in C#

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:34:12 GMT

Creating a infite list of prime numbers using lazy infinite lists. Shows how two pretty lines of Haskell can be ported to C#.

Digging deeper into C# Lazy Lists

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:08:36 GMT

This post goes over creating a lazy list structure in C# and shows off some common operations to pefrom on them.

There's some darkness in your silver light.

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:16:05 GMT

Rob voices his complaints about Silverlight 2.0 from the perspective of a developer of WPF and Flash applications.

Silverlight 2.0 + OOXML = TextGlow

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:31:02 GMT

A Word 2007 document viewer built with Silverlight. An example of what is possible using the power of Silverlight 2.0.

Irony - .NET Compiler Construction Kit

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:16:04 GMT

Irony is a new-generation .NET compiler construction kit. It utilizes the full potential of c# 2.0 and .NET Framework to implement a completely new and streamlined technology of compiler construction. Unlike most existing yacc/lex-style solutions Irony does not employ any scanner or parser code generation from grammar specifications written in proprietary meta-language. In Irony the target language grammar is coded directly in c# using operator overloading to express grammar constructs. Irony's scanner and parser modules use the grammar encoded as c# class to control the parsing process. See the expression grammar sample for an example of grammar definition in c# class, and using it in a working parser.

Understanding Variable Capturing in C#

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:58:17 GMT

With the addition of anonymous delegates in C# 2.0 and with lambda expressions in C# 3.0 you might have been hearing a lot about variable capturing. This is the mechanism in which the delegate/lambda which was defined inline is able to hold on to any variables within its lexical scope.

Links to LINQ

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Here are some useful links to LINQ information.