Silverlight, ASP.Net Ajax, LINQ, Astoria, ASP.Net MVC – there’s just tons of stuff coming out of Microsoft. And that’s not to mention the stuff people have seemingly forgotten about – ASP.Net Futures with IronPython (AWOL), Patterns and Practices Web Client Software Factory, WPF, WF, WCF and CardSpaces. Now the trend seems to be functional programming [...]

Scott Hanselman just posted his latest article in his weekly source code series. He shows various ways of producing the Fibonacci Sequence using various languages. I found it really interesting, for two reasons: I tried to do the C#3.0 one on my own after listening to a podcast about F#, and never could work it [...]

I am really getting into LINQ now! I think it’s fantastic. I recently wanted to develop a quick drop-down list in ASP.Net which allows a user to select a time of day from a list. The times are 15 minutes apart, so the list would look like this: … 08:00 08:15 08:30 08:45 09:00 … [...]

When using LINQ, you need to be careful to use the right kind of Lambda expression. “What, there is more than one kind?”, I hear you gasp. There sure is! And if you aren’t careful, you’ll get a nice little message at runtime to tell you: “System.Object DynamicInvoke(System.Object[])’ has no supported translation to SQL.” What [...]

While creating a little project, I wanted to know how to insert an object into a table using LINQ to SQL. Using Intellisense it wasn’t obvious at all. Scott Guthrie wrote a post on how do it. Unfortunately, the method name has changed since he did it, so you need to call InsertOnSubmit on the [...]

I was recently asked to do some research and give a presentation about using Visual Studio Team System 2008. I thought I’d experiment with Slideshare.net and post it here. The presentation was for a large corporation, and will possibly not come across as being very useful for an online presentation. I have been working on [...]

One of the biggest questions with Anonymous Types is “can I pass them around?” If not, why not? Can you do something like this, for example: var GetAnonymousValue() { return new { Name = “Richard Bushnell” }; } void Main() { var value = GetAnonymousValue(); var name = value.Name;} The answer is simple: no, you [...]

DotNetRocks, the internet talkshow for .Net developers, has a great show about development changes over the past 20 years. Carl Franklin interviews Kathleen Dollard, who has put a list of changes together, and is publishing them online. If you want to know where you currently stand in your software development, you want to listen to [...]