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Fabulous Adventures In Coding
2/11/2010
Today I examine another myth about C#. Consider the following code: a = b = c; This is legal; you can make arbitrarily long chains of simple assignments. This pattern is most often seen in something like int i, j, k; i = j = k = 123; I often hear ...
Today we opened up the VS 2010 RC for everyone to download. You can download it here . Jason Zander (who runs the Visual Studio team) has a good blog post that summarizes a lot of common questions about it here . As I mentioned in my blog post a...
Charlie Calvert
2/11/2010
The IronRuby team is pleased to announce version 1.0 RC2! http://ironruby.net/download Direct download link: http://ironruby.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=36931#DownloadId=105584 This release is also accompanied by a preview ...
Charlie Calvert
2/11/2010
Welcome to the sixty-second community convergence. This is the RC release issue with links to the latest Visual Studio code. The RC Release of Visual Studio 2010 Jason Zander on the Visual Studio 2010 Release. The F# February 2010 Release Iron Pyt...
Charlie Calvert
2/10/2010
IronPython 2.6.1 comes in two flavors – one that runs on top of .NET 4.0 RC, and one that runs on any other framework starting with .NET 2.0 SP1. They can be downloaded here: IronPython 2.6.1 RC1 for .NET 2.0 SP1: http://ironpython.codeplex.com/R...
I've just been fiddling with the first appendix of C# in Depth, which covers the standard query operators in LINQ, and describes a few details of the LINQ to Objects implementations. As well as specifying which operators stream and which buffer th...
I’ve been heads down in the past few weeks working on a new product. a public alpha\beta will be out end of this month. It is in the field of unit testing. Can you guess what it is? hints : There is parsing involved IWpfTextView My book
ADO.NET Team Blog
2/10/2010
As we get closer to the launch of VS2010, we’re beginning to shift a bit of our focus to planning for the next round, and we’re looking for your help! To help us prioritize our future work, we’d like to hear your feedback – is there a feature that...
MSDN: Visual C# Headlines
2/10/2010
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Be sure to download the Release Candidate and let us know what you think.
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. The reason for the extra public build and the...