Community Convergence LV
Welcome to the fifty-fifth release of Community Convergence. The big news this week is the release of an updated version of CodeRush Xpress, version 9.2. This upgrade to the popular set of free enhancements to the VS IDE has important performance and memory improvements. You might also be interested to hear that the Popfly Game Engine source code has been released. Finally, Microsoft DevLabs has released an experimental version of the .NET Framework called STM designed to make concurrency simpler.
From the C# Team
Eric Lippert
- What's the Difference? Part Three: fixed vs. fixed
- What's the Difference, Part Four: into vs into
- Iterator Blocks Part Seven: Why no anonymous iterators?
Kirill Osenkov
Charlie Calvert
- CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Ships
- Soma Blog on New Features in C# 4.0
- Tech Republic Posts a Review of Essential LINQ
Other Folks from Microsoft
Jason Zander
Mitsu
Scott Guthrie
- Multi-Monitor Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)
- VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series
- Clean Web.Config Files (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
- Multi-Targeting Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)
- Starter Project Templates (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
Scott Hanselman
Miscellaneous Posts and Downloads
Downloads
- Create Instructional Materials with the Semblio SDK
- Popfly Game Engine
- Software Transactional Memory (STM.NET)
Items of Interest
- Links for Developers who Work on Windows 7
- Creating Master-Details Application using WPF 3.5 and LINQ to XML
- Functional Programming: Available Chapter Excerpts & Discount
Comments
Anonymous
September 14, 2009
Popfly Game Engine source code has been released?Anonymous
September 21, 2009
i think you are right.NET Framework called STM designed to make concurrency simpler.