Community Convergence XXXI

Welcome to the thirty-first edition of Community Convergence. This issue features links to seven very technical posts by Matt Warren on building LINQ providers. This is one of the most requested and important LINQ related subjects, so it is a great boon to us all that Matt wrote these posts. For those of you who don't know him, Matt is very talented and very senior engineer on the C# team. His credentials alone make this a must read series for people who are serious about advanced LINQ development. Near the end of this post you will also find a great series on LINQ to SQL by Scott Guthrie.

From the C# Team

Matt Warren

• LINQ: Building an IQueryable Provider - Part I
• LINQ: Building an IQueryable Provider - Part II
• LINQ: Building an IQueryable Provider - Part III
• LINQ: Building an IQueryable Provider - Part IV
• LINQ: Building an IQueryable Provider - Part V
• LINQ: Building an IQueryable Provider - Part VI
• LINQ: Building an IQueryable provider - Part VII

Karen Liu

• Auto-Formatting Tabs in Visual Studio 2008

Jomo Fisher

• Adventures in F#--Function Type Inference
• Adventures in F#--Poking Tuples with a Stick
• Adventures in F#--Discriminated Unions
• Adventures in F#--Tail Recursion in Three Languages
• Adventures in F# Corecursion

Other Microsoft Bloggers

Chuck Jazdzewski

• Keyed Binary Search
• C# Mixins - Sort of
• Operators, Generics and Policies
• Operators, Generics and Policies II: Adapter Policy

Scott Guthrie

• The Famous LINQ TO SQL Series
  • Part 1: Using LINQ to SQL
  • Part 2: Defining our Data Model Classes
  • Part 3: Querying our Database
  • Part 4: Updating our Database
  • Part 5: Binding UI using the ASP LinqDataSource Control
  • Part 6: Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures
  • Part 7: Updating our Database using Stored Procedures
  • Part 8: Executing Custom SQL Expressions
• Other Posts
  • The C# ?? null coalescing operator (and using it with LINQ)
  • Building Silverlight Apps with .NET and Building ASP.NET Apps with VS 2008