Charlie Calvert's Community Blog
Charlie is Moving On
After four wonderful years, I’m leaving my position as a Community Manager at Microsoft. I’ve had a...
Date: 08/31/2010
IronRuby 1.0 Release Candidate 2
The IronRuby team is pleased to announce version 1.0 RC2! https://ironruby.net/download Direct...
Date: 02/10/2010
Community Convergence LXII
Welcome to the sixty-second community convergence. This is the RC release issue with links to the...
Date: 02/10/2010
Iron Python 2.6.1 RC Now Available
IronPython 2.6.1 comes in two flavors – one that runs on top of .NET 4.0 RC, and one that runs on...
Date: 02/10/2010
VS 2010 RC Released
Microsoft has shipped the RC for Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4! The RC will be made...
Date: 02/08/2010
New Articles on MSDN: ClickOnce, Office 2007 Business Applications
The following new articles have appeared on MSDN: Certificate Expiration in ClickOnce Deployment...
Date: 02/03/2010
Community Convergence LXI
Welcome to the sixty-first community convergence. I’ve highlighted three new articles by HimaBindu...
Date: 02/03/2010
Community Convergence LX
Welcome to the sixtieth community convergence. I’m going to continue to keep this short, but I plan...
Date: 01/27/2010
Help Me Get Started Using Visual Studio
If you are new to Visual Studio, you might be interested in these links: Visual Studio Quick Tour of...
Date: 01/22/2010
Community Convergence LIX
Welcome to the fifty-ninth Community Convergence – now shorter than ever! Below you will see the top...
Date: 01/21/2010
Article Published on Creating a LINQ Provider
Pedram Rezaei has written a detailed and code centric article on how to create a LINQ provider...
Date: 01/18/2010
SoCal Code Camp at California State, Fullerton
Just a reminder that there will be a code camp coming up in Southern California on January 30th and...
Date: 01/06/2010
Error Loading Projects: ResetSkipPkgs
If you are having trouble loading projects and perhaps get an error message like this: ...
Date: 01/04/2010
Feedback Wanted: Links to C# Tech Info
A couple of us are working on finding a way to surface key links to information in the MSDN library....
Date: 12/08/2009
Webcast: Lighting Up the New Visual Studio 2010 Editor with Rich Extensions (Level 200)
Microsoft Events on MSDN will be hosting a webcast on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific...
Date: 12/08/2009
Official Publication of Creating Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio Videos
Though they were previewed earlier this month, we have now officially released the first of Windows...
Date: 11/30/2009
Videos of C# Authors at PDC
Here are links to a few short video interviews by prebynski with C# MVPs and luminaries speaking...
Date: 11/24/2009
Community Links LVIII
Data Microsoft SQL Server Library SQL Server Books Online SQL Server Online Resources CTP,...
Date: 11/20/2009
Community Convergence LVII
Welcome to the fifty-seventh issue of Community Convergence. In this post I’ll focus on new articles...
Date: 11/16/2009
Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Part III
This is the first of three videos showing how Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 provides support for the...
Date: 11/16/2009
Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio Beta 2, Part II
This is the second in a series of three videos showing how Visual Studio 2010 provides support for...
Date: 11/15/2009
Videos: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with Jim Nakashima, Part I
This is the first of three videos showing how Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 provides support for the...
Date: 11/14/2009
Microsoft SDK for Facebook Released
Microsoft has created an SDK to make it easier for you to write Facebook applications. Resources...
Date: 11/10/2009
HDI Video: Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010 with Karen Liu
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Date: 11/07/2009
Classic, Lightweight and ScriptFree MSDN Library Views
There have been a number of changes to the MSDN library of late, and to the way it is integrated...
Date: 11/06/2009
New Article by Bill Wagner on Dynamic Method Bags in C# 4.0
C# MVP and wunderkind Bill Wagner has written an article entitled Dynamic Method Bags which is now...
Date: 11/03/2009
New Article on Detecting Memory Leaks . NET Applications
MSDN has published an excellent article by Fabrice Marguerie entitled “How to Detect and Avoid...
Date: 11/02/2009
CSharp “How Do I Videos (Podcasts)” for the Zune Software
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Date: 11/01/2009
VSL at DevConnections
The following talks will be given by Visual Studio Languages team members at the DevConnections...
Date: 10/31/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 does not Load: The “Application Cannot Start” and Raster Font Errors
I was working at home the other night with a freshly installed copy of Visual 2010 Beta 2. I closed...
Date: 10/29/2009
A Chance to Influence the MSDN Visual Studio Documentation (Help System)
The docs team here at Microsoft has created a new survey to solicit your opinion on the help system...
Date: 10/27/2009
Running IronPython Scripts from a C# 4.0 Program
IronPython is a scripting language hosted on the .NET platform. This posts shows how you can use the...
Date: 10/25/2009
Getting Started with IronPython
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Date: 10/25/2009
New Video on Sharepoint and C# by Kathleen McGrath
Microsoft guru Kathleen McGrath has created an elegant and informative new video on SharePoint...
Date: 10/22/2009
IronRuby and IronPython for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 Available
The third preview of IronRuby and IronPython running under the Dynamic Language Runtime and .NET 4.0...
Date: 10/22/2009
The XNA Role Playing Game Starter Kit
In my spare time I’ve been looking at the C#code for the XNA Role Playing Game starter kit. This kit...
Date: 09/27/2009
.NET University is Live
Doug Turnure and Mark Dunn just reopened the .NET University site. This resource includes...
Date: 09/21/2009
Booting from a VHD
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Date: 09/02/2009
Community Convergence LV
Welcome to the fifty-fifth release of Community Convergence. The big news this week is the release...
Date: 08/31/2009
Tech Republic Posts a Review of Essential LINQ
On the Tech Republic web site Justin James has written a review of Essential LINQ, the book Dinesh...
Date: 08/28/2009
CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Ships
The free CodeRush Xpress from DevExpress provides C# and VB developers with powerful extensions to...
Date: 08/28/2009
Tech Days Canada 2009 Call for Speakers
Peter Ritchie has posted about the upcoming Tech Days Conference in Canada, stating that you can...
Date: 08/27/2009
Soma Blog on New Features in C# 4.0
Just a quick note to point out that Soma posted on new features in C# 4.0 and VB 10.0. Both...
Date: 08/24/2009
MSDN Event: Fundamentals of WPF & WPF in the Real World
MSDN Events will host Paul Sheriff in two free half day events in Southern California. He...
Date: 08/24/2009
Community Convergence LIII
Welcome to the fifty-third edition of Community Convergence. Here at Microsoft the C# team is still...
Date: 08/14/2009
Windows 7 Code Pack V. 1.0 Released
The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides support for various features of...
Date: 08/07/2009
Community Convergence LII
Welcome to the fifty-second release of Community Convergence. In this issue, I provide a series of...
Date: 08/05/2009
Recent Videos from the C# Team (2008-2009)
Here is a selection of videos created between July, 2008 and July, 2009 by members of the C# team at...
Date: 07/31/2009