Charlie Calvert's Community Blog
Snippets 'n XML
There is an extensive collection of Visual Studio 2005 C# snippets available for download. In this...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/24/2006
Community Convergence VIII
Welcome to the eighth installment of Community Convergence. This week let's focus on two C# Wikis...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/23/2006
Community Convergence VII
The C# team needs your help debugging the new Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta. I've written...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/15/2006
The C# Teams Needs Input on VS 2005 SP1 Beta!
The C# Team needs your help! The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta needs more testers doing more testing....
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/12/2006
Optimizing C# String Performance
Strings in C# are highly optimized but also potentially very wasteful. They give programmers a safe,...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/11/2006
Vista Dog Brood I
Another day of dog fooding Vista. Everything ran smoothly today, and I didn't encounter any serious...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/10/2006
Old Home Week: Anders and ChuckJ
I was walking down the hall today, and looked casually in Ander's office without really thinking...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/09/2006
C# Links
Learn C# Team Video's Interview with Anson Horton Interview with Karen Liu and DJ Park Luca...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/09/2006
Community Convergence VI
The focus for me this week has been dog fooding Vista, Office, Orcas and half the other products...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/08/2006
Live Writer
Today I am testing various tools for writing blogs. Live Writer is in beta, and I want to see if I...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/07/2006
Links to LINQ
Here are some useful links to LINQ information. Use the comments or write me if you want to add to...
Author: ccalvert Date: 10/05/2006
Community Convergence V
Welcome to the fifth Community Convergence update. This file is published on my blog, and shortly...
Author: ccalvert Date: 09/28/2006
Community Convergence IV
This week we have begun an experiment by publishing on the C# Developer Center a draft of one of the...
Author: ccalvert Date: 09/22/2006
Code Climber Generic Methods Part III
Code Climber Generic Methods Part III This post continues the examination of generic methods and...
Author: ccalvert Date: 09/21/2006
Community Convergence III
This week you can watch the first in a series of videos featuring members of the Microsoft C# team....
Author: ccalvert Date: 09/15/2006
Community Convergence II
This week I heard a number of people on the C# team talking about the hot new gaming technology for...
Author: ccalvert Date: 09/08/2006
C# Bloggers
Compiler and Language Wes Dyer Eric Lippert Luke Hoban (PM) Mads Torgersen Peter Hallam (DEV) Rok Yu...
Author: ccalvert Date: 09/06/2006
CodeClimber: Generic Methods Part II
This is the second in a multi-part series of blogs on generics in C#. In the previous blog, you...
Author: ccalvert Date: 09/04/2006
Community Convergence
This is the first in a series of blogs called Community Convergence that will appear both on the...
Author: ccalvert Date: 08/30/2006
Visual Studio.NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Released
Visual Studio 2005 is the preferred environment for developers who want to keep up with the latest...
Author: ccalvert Date: 08/19/2006
Code Climber: A Touch of Generics in the Morning
This article is meant as a gentle introduction to generics. It will be the first in a series of...
Author: ccalvert Date: 08/18/2006
Crowdsourcing: Tracking Job Trends
There is an interesting article on Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe in the June issue of Wired....
Author: ccalvert Date: 08/18/2006
Borland Brings back the Turbo Name
There is news from our old friends at Borland. It looks like they are bringing back the Turbo name....
Author: ccalvert Date: 08/09/2006
Scrum at the Agile 2006 Conference
It’s time to add some more information about my trip to the Agile 2006 Conference. One of the big...
Author: ccalvert Date: 08/09/2006
Bio Added, Some Updates on the New Job
This is just a quick entry to say that I've filled in the About section of this blog with some...
Author: ccalvert Date: 08/02/2006
The Agile 2006 Conference
I spent last week at the Agile 2006 conference in Minneapolis. I’m going to try to dig through my...
Author: ccalvert Date: 08/01/2006
Enhancing the C# Community
Hello, my name is Charlie Calvert, and on July 10, 2006 I started my new job as the Community...
Author: ccalvert Date: 07/25/2006