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VS2010 RC: Much Faster than Beta 2

I spent all day yesterday working with VS2010 RC. (MSDN Subscribers could download late on Monday. It becomes public today). First impression:  It is much faster, and more stable than the beta 2 build...

Posted 10 February 2010 09:27 AM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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Euler Problem 14: Learn to Memoize

This is going to be fun. It’s a bit of LINQ, a bit of academic Computer Science, and a bit of meteorology. Euler Problem 14 concerns a sequence referred to as hailstorm numbers. Hailstorm number...

Posted 04 February 2010 03:48 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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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

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Slides and Demos from my 2010 CodeMash talk

As promised, here are the slides and demos from my CodeMash Talk:  Going Dynamic in C#. Slides . Demos . Please note that the demos are compatible with VS2010 Beta 2. They will not load (or run) on...

Posted 18 January 2010 11:59 AM by wwagner | with no comments

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Changed and rewritten items: Effective C# 2nd edition

In my last post, I wrote about the new items in the second edition of Effective C#, and those items that were removed to make room for the new items. Now, let’s discuss what happened to the items that...

Posted 17 December 2009 02:58 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Effective C#, 2nd Edition: What Content got dropped, and why?

The 2nd edition of Effective C# is now available on Rough Cuts . With that, I’ve started to get questions via email about how I decided which items to add, and which items to drop. It should be clear from...

Posted 04 December 2009 11:38 AM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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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...

Posted 10 November 2009 04:19 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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C# can now consume indexed properties

Kirill Osenkov provides some details on this feature that was added in Beta 2 of C#4.0. I must admit a certain ambivalence toward this feature. On the one hand, this feature will make working with Office...

Posted 01 November 2009 02:39 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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VS2010 Beta 2, Release dates, and More

You probably noticed that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released for download today (for MSDN subscribers). The general release will be Wednesday (Oct 21). I’ve had limited time (obviously) to work...

Posted 19 October 2009 01:39 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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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...

Posted 30 September 2009 07:32 PM by wwagner | 11 comment(s)

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Long time, no Euler (or YAEPS # 13)

Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve taken the time to solve and blog about one of the Euler problems.  It was time to pick this up again. Problem 13 says: Work out the first 10 digits of the sum...

Posted 25 August 2009 11:15 PM by wwagner | 3 comment(s)

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Elevate: SRT Solutions first Open Source Project

Chris Marinos started Elevate as a learning time project at SRT Solutions.  It’s still very young, but it’s already very useful to me. Chris wrote a great introductory post on the library, which is...

Posted 19 August 2009 08:29 AM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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Book Review: Essential LINQ

During my recent vacation, I read the final print version of Essential LINQ , by Charlie Calvert and Dinesh Kulkarni. Normally, I try to answer the question, “Who should read this book?” That answer eluded...

Posted 13 July 2009 11:08 AM by wwagner | with no comments

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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...

Posted 26 May 2009 05:25 PM by wwagner | 3 comment(s)

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Query Language or Method calls: A matter of taste

My last post (which was too long ago), generated question on whether I prefer the query language or the method notation for LINQ queries. The answer is ‘yes’.  Jon Skeet mentioned this as well last...

Posted 11 May 2009 01:54 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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