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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 Developer should know about C#. Kathleen’s column...
Matt Warren has put the IQueryable toolkit on CodePlex . I’m excited about this for a number of reasons. I’ve commented before about how much I’ve learned reading Matt’s posts about building an IQueryProvider. That makes LINQ much more powerful...
My last post on duck typing generated this question: I have a question regarding your recent post about Duck Typing and anonymous type scope in C# 4.0. Does this now open up the possibility of using an anonymous type (say, the results of...
I’ve been having fun learning the new upcoming C# 4.0 features Anders described at PDC (see video here ). One of the the more interesting areas is dynamic, and the ways you can use dynamic to support duck typing . In C# 4.0, you can create methods that...
The Microsoft PDC is positioned as a forward looking conference. Roughly 75% of the content is pre-release content, and only 25% is on products and platforms that have already shipped. On the one hand, that makes it very challenging to understand everything...
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 Methods If you have questions about the content...
A little while ago, I did a DNR TV on C# 3.0 . During that, I talked about preserving null semantics when you write extension methods. I made the point that you should never test if the first parameter of an extension method is null. That...
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. In addition, a number of people were invited to...
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 language and a translation from that query language...
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 editors, technical editors, and community members...
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 that one of my two readers haven't heard of Scott...
My last post generated valid criticisms from readers. Let’s clarify and correct that. Keith Elder commented: I got the impression reading your post that you "skimmed" my article and didn't really get what it was I was getting at. […] The...
Keith Elder wrote a post a post asserting (or at least proposing) that a more imperative syntax for a problem is more readable than a LINQ based C# 3.0 version. (See here for his post). Well, that got my hackles up. Some days, my hackles get up before...
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/article.aspx?p=1237069
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 and live now. Check it out here .
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