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One Long Strange Trip: Visual Studio Magazine and Me
The January Visual Studio Magazine marks the first time the C# Corner is written by Patrick Steele . I’ve bowed out after a long run with the magazine and its predecessors. The most important part is that...
A Discussion on Imperative vs. Declarative Programming
I received the following question (paraphrased) this week: “You are an advocate of converting imperative style programming into re-usable frameworks as you did in your November VS Magazine column. I agree...
Lazy<T>: On Demand Construction in .NET 4.0
I love it when I find those small new bits of functionality in the .NET framework. It’s all the big items that get all the love at conferences and in magazines. Lazy<T> is one of those items...
Not so Hidden Gems in VS 2010
I’m just going to assume that all readers of my blog know that Visual Studio 2010 Beta one has been released . I’ve been running it almost exclusively since I downloaded and installed it. There’s a lot...
Live Framework and custom resource types
I’ll start this post with a couple caveats. I’m learning the Live Framework SDK, just everyone else. This (and upcoming) blog posts on the Live Framework are based on my initial learning on Live Framework...
Learning new languages with VSM
This month’s VSM has a pair of articles by me and Kathleen Dollard that were great fun to write, and I believe they’ll be useful to a wide audience. My regular C# corner column discusses what every VB...
Excerpts of “More Effective C#” posted on InformIT
Three different items from More Effective C# have been posted publicly on the InformIT site: Item 36:  Understand how Query Expressions Map to Method Calls . Linq is built on two concepts: A query...
What .NET Library Features do you use?
Scott Hanselman posted a survey (one little question) on what features do you use in the .NET framework: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SurveyTimeWhatNETFrameworkFeaturesDoYouUse.aspx On the off chance...
Euler Problem 10
Patrick posted his solution earlier this week. I figure it was time to add mine. Also, Octavio Hernandez pointed out in the comments to problem 8 that he had discussed similar code constructs in his blog...
Code from Lightning Talk: Compiler Tricks
My last Lightning Talk should how you can mix constructor calls and object initializers. It's a useful technique that can keep you from writing too much code you don't need. To see what I mean...
Do I write software at home like I write at work?
Dave Donaldson asks " Do you write software at homer like you do at work? " Dave wonders if we use the same discipline writing software at home (for our own use) that we do at work. I think the...
Some Clarification on VSTS licensing, builds, and Continuous Integration
Jeff Beehler wrote this post clarifying some questions on VSTS licensing as it relates to build environments. There is a common misconception (that I shared) that your build machine needed a licensed copy...
MVP status renewed, RD status renewed
Yup, it's that time of year. My MVP award was renewed, as was my RD status. Both are prestigious awards that represent contributions to the technical community around various products. In addition...
Source Code for .NET Framework being released
I read this on Scott Guthrie's blog early this afternoon. This is absolutely fantastic. Instead of all that time in Reflector, wondering what something does, where the method works, or why it was implemented...

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