Community Convergence XXXVII
Welcome to the thirty-seventh edition of Community Convergence. Visual Studio 2008 has been released into the wild, and the next version of Visual Studio is just starting to show the first stirrings of life. This is a time when a number of team members are on vacation, in transition to another team, or setting up machines in their new offices after joining the C# group. The PM's, development leads and various management types sit long hours in meetings while the plan the next version of the product. Even with all these diverse forms of activity, a number of team members have found time to post. Veteran team member and C# expert Kevin Pilch-Bisson has even found time to revive his blog, sharing a number of great new posts with us.
From the C# Team
Kevin Pilch-Bisson
- Coding Styles: bools, structs, or enums?
- Dodfooding Challenges Part One
- Dodfooding Challenges Part Two: Unit Testing.
- VS Color schemes
- Enforcing Immutability in Code
DJ Park
Kirill Osenkov
- Jacob Carpenter on named arguments in C#
- Extension methods: one of my favorite C# 3.0 features
- DG 1.0 - free Dynamic Geometry Software for kids
- Please use File.ReadAllText and the like
- We need your feedback about Visual Studio setup
Luca Bolognese
- Creating an immutable value object in C# - Part I - Using a class
- Creating an immutable value object in C# - Part II - Making the class better
Sam Ng
Visual C# QA Blog
Eric Lippert
- Immutability in C# Part One: Kinds of Immutability
- Immutability in C# Part Two: A Simple Immutable Stack
- Immutability in C# Part Three: A Covariant Immutable Stack
Sreekar Choudhary
Charlie Calvert
Other Microsoft Sources
Scott Guthrie
- .NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)
- ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing
- ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views
- ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 4): Handling Form Edit and Post Scenarios
- December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008
- VS 2008 Compatibility with Older VS 2005 Add-in Packages
Mitsu Furuta
Wes Dyer
Other Links
Dan Wahlin
Wriju Ghosh
Thomas Petricek