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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

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

Getting ready for PDC

Well, today is being spent getting everything ready for traveling to Los Angeles for the PDC conference. Like most people without a blue badge, I’m going as an attendee to learn as much as I can about...

Posted 24 October 2008 02:37 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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

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

Why the violin on the cover of Effective C#?

There's no hidden meaning, really. A friend asked me why there is a violin on the cover of Effective C# instead of any other instrument. The logic was actually pretty simple. A musical instrument seemed...

Posted 21 June 2005 07:27 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, Me