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 … [...]

Scott Guthrie has just announced that the source code for the .Net framework has just been made available for reference use. It will be particularly useful to see how the controls in ASP.Net and Windows Forms have been done. Detailed instructions for how to set it up are here. One caveat: it’s not available for [...]

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 [...]

Yaay! There’s a FREE version of Visual Studio for IronPython, called IronPythonStudio. Until now you could use Visual Studio for IronPython, but only with a huge SDK, the ASP.Net Futures, and a lot of patience. Now there’s a separate IDE just for IronPython. IronPythonStudio uses Visual Studio 2008 as its shell, and looks very impressive. [...]