Community Event Website Tips
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Steve
Every user group, conference, or other community event has a website. It’s a great way to provide easy accessibility to event information. Except a good number of sites don’t do that very well. I am increasing frustrated by the amount of effort required ... continue

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
techbash: .NET Valley News: Survey from Microsoft - Microsoft would like your feedback. They'd like to know how you feel about... http://ow.ly/17KvPP

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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
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Typemock Becomes a .NET Valley Sponsor
Monday, May 31, 2010
Typemock has recently joined .NET Valley as a sponsor. Typemock develops software that makes unit testing easy. Our tools support all .NET technologies and help development teams improve code integrity and ship quality code on time.For more information ... continue

C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: C# 4 Optional Parameters
Monday, May 17, 2010 by Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)
This is part of a series.  C# 4 allows you to declare optional parameters in methods, constructors, and indexers. A parameter is optional if it specifies a default value in its declaration:      void Foo(int x = 42) { Console.WriteLine(x); ... continue

C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:Dynamic Primitive Type Part 1
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)
This is part of a series. I have to admit. I am non-excited about C# 4 features, including the dynamic type. While C# 3,  introduced many neccessaary features, especially for LINQ, but very useful in their own right, C# 4 seems more like a solution ... continue

New and Notable 415
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)
A collection of links, not all "new" AppFabric/BizTalk/Identity AppFabric Virtual Launch on May 20th - Save the Date - Microsoft will be conducting an event to launch Windows Server AppFabric and BizTalk Server. They will be kicking off  ... continue

C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: Complex numeric type
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)
This is part of a series. Note: This material is from C# 4.0 In A Nutshell Page 239. Like BigInteger, the Complex struct is another specialized numeric type new to Framework 4.0 and is for representing complex numbers with real and imaginary components ... continue

C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: BigInteger
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)
This is part of a series. Another new type in Framework 4.0 os the BigInteger specialized numeric type. It lives in the new System.Numerics namespace and lets you represent an arbitrarily large integer without any loss of precision, Since C# does not ... continue

Visual Studio Project and Solution Version Compatibility
Saturday, May 01, 2010 by Steve
I should be able to open a Visual Studio 2008 solution in Visual Studio 2010 and still be able to open it in Visual Studio 2008 again. Currently, I cannot do incremental upgrades across a team of developers or share solutions with another developer with ... continue