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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...

Posted 29 January 2010 02:26 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, SRT Solutions, Me, C#, .NET General, C# General, DevCenterPosts

MSDN Developer Conference -- Detroit: January 22

There is still time to register for the MSDN Developer Conference in Detroit, this coming Thursday. If you missed PDC, this is a chance to get a look at the major content announcements from that conference...

Posted 19 January 2009 06:03 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Me, C#, upcoming attractions, C# General

Posted: Code and Slides from CodeMash

I’ve just uploaded my code and slides from both talks at CodeMash. I was somehow lucky enough to have two talks at CodeMash: Extending and modeling the type system using Extension Methods. Slides CodeSamples...

Posted 12 January 2009 11:04 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Me, C#, C# General

Interview with .NET Zone live (includes sample from More Effective C#)

More Effective C# was one of the better selling books at PDC, which triggered Alan Ashcraft to sit down and chat with me about C#, writing, helping customers, and being a general nerdy person. The full...

Posted 12 December 2008 03:57 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, Me, C# General

Another item from More Effective C# Posted on InformIT

Today, the fine folks at InformIT posted another item from More Effective C# for you to learn more about the style and the content from the book: Item 29: Enhance Constructed Generic Types with Extension...

Posted 28 October 2008 02:06 AM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Effective C#, LINQ, Me, C#, C# General

Yet another Book Post: The C# Programming Language 3rd Edition (Annotated)

I was recently notified that the 3rd edition of the C# Programming Language is out. This version has is new in several ways. Obviously, it includes a description of all the new C# 3.0 language features...

Posted 23 October 2008 11:52 AM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Me, C#, books, C# General, BookReviews

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...

Posted 22 October 2008 08:58 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, Me, C#, .NET General, C# General

More Effective C# available now

Today is the official release date for More Effective C# . Writing a book may seem to be a solitary activity, but nothing could be further from the truth. I have been lucky enough to work with fantastic...

Posted 17 October 2008 05:00 PM by wwagner | 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Effective C#, LINQ, Me, C#, books, C# General

Paul Kimmel interviews me about C#, LINQ, and writing books

Paul Kimmel spent some time over the summer chatting with me about More Effective C# , LINQ, upcoming C# features, and the process of writing books. It's live here: http://www.informit.com/articles...

Posted 06 October 2008 08:06 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: LINQ, Me, C#, C# General

DNR TV on C# 3.0 is live

Last week, I recorded a DNR TV with Carl Franklin discussing C# 3.0 extension methods, local type inference and some of the best practices that revolve around those parts of the languages. It's up...

Posted 29 September 2008 12:23 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: LINQ, Me, C#, C# General

My second DNR TV is live

The world-famous Carl Franklin invited be to be on DNR TV again. The episode is live here: http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=105 We discuss generics in C#, and how you can use generics to create more...

Posted 11 March 2008 08:10 AM by wwagner | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Me, C#, Links, C# General

DNR TV on Learning C#

Carl Franklin and I got together and did an intro to C# for VB.NET developers last month. The first version is up here: http://www.dnrtv.com/ Or, watch the silverlight version here: http://perseus.franklins...

Posted 16 January 2008 09:04 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Me, C#, C# General