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New, Improved Site for Dynamic Silverlight

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:54:51 GMT

The Dynamic Silverlight site has a shiny new makeover and some new content. This is where code and samples are hosted for using Silverlight with IronPython, IronRuby, and other DLR languages.

Dispatch from MIX08 Day One

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:05:54 GMT

Impressions on the keynote(including IE8 and Silverlight) and Silverlight for Mobile.

Dynamically Generating Lambdas

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:31:03 GMT

In this post you will see how to build expression trees and compile and call dynamically generated lambdas.

Hotfix to Correct Visual Studio 2008 Performance Issues Released

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:46:02 GMT

Microsoft has released the hotfix to correct the Visual Studio 2008 performance issues.

Why Microsoft Will Win, and Dominate the Web.

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Is Silverlight a Flash killer? No. Is it intended to be? Nope. It's much more than that. Will you still see flash animations on sites? Absolutely. But, will you see real applications on the web, built in "AJAX"/Flash? Nope, they will be built using Silverlight. Dare I say, you might someday see Flash running on top of Silverlight! Why not?

Chaining Linq Queries

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A discussion of how you would create Linq queries with optional parts and then takes that one step further to show how to create your own Linq extension methods to "build up" your Linq queries.

The .Net DLR makes building a new language implementation ridiculousl

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:01:04 GMT

Leverage the CLR, the DLR, and new parsing technologies makes it a lot more practical to design and implement a new language than ever before.

Guide to installing a secured Subversion server on Windows

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Guide to installing a secured Subversion server on Windows

Why I Love F#: Result Tuples

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

great and direct presentation on how to call C# Code from F#

How to use delegates to remove duplicated code

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Sometimes you have duplicated code, that is not easy to remove with "ordinary" coding approaches. Think about the following example. You have two or more methods that needs to be encapsulated with try-catch blocks.

Download all the .NET Reference Source at once

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:46:04 GMT

John Robbins talks about the tool he and Kerem Kusmezer created to pre-fetch *all* the .NET reference source.

Project Euler in F# - Problem 16 » FSharp.it

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:40:36 GMT

FSharp.it presents another Project Euler's problem on the sum of the digits of a number.

Horror Stories For Programmers - Beware The Bogus Experts

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:46:01 GMT

The bogus expert is generally an expert in trivia. They know syntax, but have no idea how to use it appropriately. They're always closed-minded individuals who will refuse any idea unless it's their own or they can make it appear to be their own. The most important thing to a bogus expert is their illusion of superiority. They don't care about consequences and so you can normally identify one after the fact by the mess they leave.