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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

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)

Filed under: C#, .NET General, C# General, DevCenterPosts

When Cast<T> doesn’t Cast to T

A friend asked me about some issues he was having using Enumerable.Cast<T>(). In his mind, it just wasn’t working. Like so many problems, it was working correctly, just not the way he expected. It...

Posted 22 July 2009 11:04 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Effective C#, LINQ, C#, .NET General, DevCenterPosts

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)

Filed under: C#, .NET General, C# General, DevCenterPosts

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...

Posted 09 April 2009 10:13 PM by wwagner | 4 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, .NET General, C# General, Live Framework

First looks at the Live Framework SDK

I took some time to create the MyPhotos sample for the Live Framework SDK (currently in CTP). I’m impressed with the consistency of the programming model.  You can get quite a bit done using just...

Posted 21 January 2009 04:32 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: LINQ, C#, .NET General, Live Framework

Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL

1/16: Updated with corrections from Readers. I’d hoped to completely avoid any discussion surrounding the future (or futures) of Entity Framework and Linq2Sql. And yet, my LINQ talks at CodeMash...

Posted 15 January 2009 05:14 PM by wwagner | 7 comment(s)

Filed under: LINQ, C#, .NET General

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...

Posted 01 December 2008 11:31 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: C#, articles, .NET General, C# General, DevCenterPosts

Charlie Calvert and I on Deep Fried Bytes

Deep Fried Bytes #19 went live on Friday. Charlie Calvert and I got cornered by Keith and Woody while at PDC for a quick chat about C# futures, our book, and other cool stuff was announced at PDC. We had...

Posted 16 November 2008 08:10 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Me, C#, .NET General

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

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...

Posted 14 October 2008 10:48 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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

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...

Posted 31 August 2008 01:05 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: LINQ, C#, .NET General, C# General, DevCenterPosts, Euler

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...

Posted 30 August 2008 05:53 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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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...

Posted 18 March 2008 11:01 AM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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

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...

Posted 03 January 2008 12:05 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: C#, .NET General, local interest, C# General