Community Convergence XLVIII

Welcome to the 48th Community Convergence. The C# team continues to work hard to get out the next version of C#, and to add improvements to the Visual Studio 2010 IDE. Working long, fruitful hours on these rainy Washington State January days and nights, the engineers on our team are doing a great job putting together a set of features that will improve both C#, and the experience C# developers have in the Visual Studio IDE. They are also working to lay the foundation for some big improvements which you will see only after the next version of C# ships.

To keep up with the team's plans, you should:

1. Continue to follow LINQ
2. Learn about the Dynamic Features planned for Visual Studio 2010
3. Learn about the Code Focused IDE features planned for Visual Studio 2010

Here are a few listings that will help you gain deeper insight into all of these important technology:

Videos

• Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen and Eric Lippert discuss the new Features in C# 4.0, Part I
• Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen and Eric Lippert discuss the new Features in C# 4.0, Part II

Sam Ng

• Dynamic in C# VII: Phantom Method Semantics
• Dynamic in C# VI: What Dynamic Does not Do

Luca Bolognese

• Expression Tree Serialization and LINQ

Eric Lippert

• Eric has put together a short, but helpful description of how his fellow team members wrote about the C# Spec in the new book, The C# Programming Language Language, Third Edition. The authors are Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde, and Mads Torgersen. Other notable luminaries contributed annotations to the printed version of this text. All the authors are very talented and work hard, but In my opinion, Mads deserves a special note of thanks for the great work he did to help pull this edition of the book together.

Kirill Osenkov

• Call Hierarchy Navigation in Visual Studio 2010.
• Reflections on Coding Style

Soma

• New Features in Visual Studio 2010

Matt Warren

• LINQ IQ Toolkit on Codeplex

 

 

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 13, 2009
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• Anonymous
  January 14, 2009
  "They are also working to lay the foundation for some big improvements which you will see only after the next version of C# ships." Hmmmm...like what ?! And you mean that we will see its in 4th version of the language or in the next one ?? Thanks!

• Anonymous
  February 01, 2009
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• Anonymous
  May 09, 2009
  This is getting more and more important. Dynamics can cover some ground here but I think we really need them (IMHO). We need Synthetic Macros (Lisp macros not C++ ones) and it will for sure leverage a huge amount of coding burden. There are many good Statically Typed implementations of the concept out there (Nemerle, Boo and F# for example). If they are so terrifying we can use them in a enable/disable mode on our assemblies. We are doing this for Unsafe mode. Default mode can be disabled and I promise I will always enable it!