Charlie Calvert's Community Blog
March CTP Samples Overview Video
Here is a short 7 minute video to serve as an introduction to the Samples that are included with the...
Author: ccalvert Date: 03/05/2007
LINQ Samples Update
Here are a set of updated samples for the Visual Studio Orcas March CTP. These samples replace all...
Author: ccalvert Date: 03/05/2007
Community Convergence XXII
Community Convergence in a nutshell: The March CTP for Visual Studio, creating Art with LINQ, videos...
Author: ccalvert Date: 03/02/2007
February/March Orcas CTP Now Available
The February CTP (aka as the March CTP) is now available for download as a regular install and as a...
Author: ccalvert Date: 03/01/2007
LINQ Farm: Videos on One-to-Many Relationships and Joins
This is the second in a series of videos on LINQ to SQL in pre-release versions of Visual Studio...
Author: ccalvert Date: 02/28/2007
LINQ Farm: LINQ To Sql Beginners Video
This short video contains the basic information that you need to use LINQ to SQL to connect to a...
Author: ccalvert Date: 02/26/2007
Community Convergence XXI
Welcome to the twenty-first Community Convergence. I'm Charlie Calvert, the C# Community PM, and...
Author: ccalvert Date: 02/16/2007
LINQ Farm: Connecting to a Database with LINQ to SQL
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Author: ccalvert Date: 02/16/2007
Connecting to Northwind
This post covers accessing the Northwind database from Visual Studio or SQL Server Management...
Author: ccalvert Date: 02/15/2007
CSharp Samples
I've become the default manager for the samples that ship with the various Orcas CTP's and upcoming...
Author: ccalvert Date: 02/13/2007
Talks at MDC2007
Attached to this article you can the outline for my talks on the Visual Studio 2005 IDE and on LINQ....
Author: ccalvert Date: 02/05/2007
Community Convergence XX
Welcome to the twentieth Community Convergence. I'm Charlie Calvert, the C# Community PM, and this...
Author: ccalvert Date: 02/02/2007
Anders Hejlsberg on LINQ and Functional Programming
In this video interview, Anders Hejlsberg, the chief architect of C#, describes features in the next...
Author: ccalvert Date: 01/27/2007
Community Convergence XIX
Welcome to the nineteenth Community Convergence. I'm Charlie Calvert, the C# Community PM, and this...
Author: ccalvert Date: 01/23/2007
Code Climber: Delegates
Delegates This post provides introductory information on using delegates. It is the first in a three...
Author: ccalvert Date: 01/16/2007
Custom Iterator's Article by Bill Wagner on the Developer Center
On the Developer Center there is a new article by Bill Wagner about Custom Iterators and the Yield...
Author: ccalvert Date: 01/16/2007
Community Convergence XVIII
Welcome to the eighteenth issue of Community Convergence. I'm Charlie Calvert, the C# Community PM,...
Author: ccalvert Date: 01/12/2007
January Orcas CTP Now Available
The January Orcas CTP went out last night about 8:30 Pacific time. It is available both as a regular...
Author: ccalvert Date: 01/11/2007
Community Convergence XVII
Welcome to the XVII Community Convergence. This post is dedicated to Steve Teixeira's Granddad, who...
Author: ccalvert Date: 01/08/2007
LINQ and Simplicity
I've been thinking this week about the impact that LINQ will have on the development world. If LINQ...
Author: ccalvert Date: 01/08/2007
Community Convergence XVI
Welcome to the sixteenth Community Convergence. This column comes out about once a week and is...
Author: ccalvert Date: 12/29/2006
LINQ Farm: LINQ Sets
This is the sixth in a series of articles on LINQ. In this post the focus will be on the LINQ Set...
Author: ccalvert Date: 12/28/2006
The Mess is All Right, the Trouble with Livestock
The New York Times carries a heartening article on the benefits of messiness. It features a quote...
Author: ccalvert Date: 12/28/2006
New Gadgets for Live Spaces
There are a number of new gadgets to play with on live.com. You can embed most of these gadgets on...
Author: ccalvert Date: 12/20/2006
Notes on the January CTP
The January CTP (formerly known as the December CTP) should be out shortly after the new year. We...
Author: ccalvert Date: 12/18/2006
Installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 and the May LINQ CTP
Now that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 is out I wanted to post a brief note about using it with...
Author: ccalvert Date: 12/17/2006
C# LINQ to SQL Chat Dec 12, 2006
Chat Topic: C# LINQ to SQL Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Unique Users: 106 Questions: 104 Forum:...
Author: ccalvert Date: 12/12/2006
Community Convergence XIV
There will be an hour long public chat on LINQ to SQL and related technologies held Tuesday, Dec 12...
Author: ccalvert Date: 12/10/2006
SpaceMonger and Treemaps
A few days ago I had the classic "out of free space on drive C" error on my main computer. I wanted...
Author: ccalvert Date: 12/07/2006
LINQ Farm: Focus on Grouping
This is the fifth post in a series of articles on LINQ and query expressions. LINQ will be part of...
Author: ccalvert Date: 12/02/2006
Controlling Outlook 2007 with C# and Visual Studio Tools for Office
This post describes how to use C# and the Visual Studio Tools for Office to program Outlook 2007....
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/30/2006
Transcript from the November 14, 2006 C# Language Chat
These transcripts are eventually published here, but while we're waiting for that to occur, I'll...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/28/2006
INETA and User Groups
Finding C# and .NET user groups is easy. The key is to use INETA, or CodeZone. You can find links to...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/22/2006
Community Convergence XII
Welcome to the twelfth Community Convergence. Please go here to post comments. This edition of...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/21/2006
LINQ Farm: Using Distinct and Avoiding Lambdas
This is the fourth in a series of articles on LINQ. This article focuses on an important operator...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/19/2006
Video with Peter Hallam: Automatic Properties
Here is a new video Peter Hallam and I shot in his office. We started off talking about a new...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/17/2006
Problem Opening WPF XAML Projects in Visual Studio 2005
A friend of mine sent me a WPF XAML project for use in Visual 2005 that gave me the error "This...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/14/2006
Community Convergence XI
Welcome to the eleventh Community Convergence. Change has blown through the CSharp Developer Center...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/14/2006
Charlie Calvert's Technical Blog Index
This is index to the various technical posts I have created for this blog. As I add to each section,...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/11/2006
The LINQ Farm: Query Operators
This article describes simple ways to query an in-memory collection or "table" using LINQ query...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/11/2006
Windows Sidebar and other Recent Links
Quick links to various items in the news: There is a fun video here on creating gadgets using the...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/10/2006
Community Convergence X
Welcome to the tenth Community Convergence release. If you are reading this on the front page of the...
Author: ccalvert Date: 11/06/2006
The LINQ Farm Part II: Query Expressions
In this post I'm going to explain the query expression found in my previous article on LINQ. This...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/30/2006
Community Convergence IX
There is a new October Orcas CTP available for download and there will be several upcoming live...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/30/2006