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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 interview is here: http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles...

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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 Methods If you have questions about the content...

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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. In addition, a number of people were invited to...

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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 language and a translation from that query language...

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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 editors, technical editors, and community members...

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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/article.aspx?p=1237069

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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 and live now. Check it out here .

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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 reusable block of code. We go from fairly obvious...

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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.net/dnrtv/0096/silverlight/video.html This discussion...

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