Paulo Morgado

Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers: Meet Me In Barcelona

Once again, I’ll be at an ATE Booth at Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers . As I already said about the PDC , what I like most of these events is networking with Microsoft staff and other attendees. So, if you want to meet me, I’ll be glad to meet you.

LINQ With C# Book

Luís just broke the news on our LINQ with C# book. I was honored with the invitation from Luís to write this book with him for FCA , for which he has already published a few books [ ^ ] [ ^ ] [ ^ ] before. This will be an entry level book in Portuguese...

PDC2008: Meet Me In Los Angeles

It’s not the first time I try but, for one reason or another, this is the first time I will go to the PDC ( Microsoft ’s Professional Developers Conference). According to the site “The PDC is designed for leading-edge developers and software architects...

Clone Detective For Visual Studio

Clone Detective is a tool that integrates with Visual Studio and uses the ConQAT ( Con tinuous Q uality A ssessment T oolkit) to analyze C# projects and search for duplicated source code. Watch the videos and see if this is the tool you were looking for...

E-Reference Library Subscription Discount Offer for The Community

Microsoft Press has created an exclusive discount URL for the E-Reference Library that MVP s can pass along to the broader community without any limitations or restrictions. To create a trial subscription, community referrals should use the Trial URL...

StyleCop 4.3 Is Out

The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool . You can get it from here . On this version there are some bug fixes, new rules and documentation. Also in this version, the list of errors and warnings goes to the Errors...

VHD Resizer: Tool For Resizing VHD Files

While installing SQL Server 2008 in a Virtual PC virtual machine I run out of disk space. Looking around, I found this great tool: VHD Resizer . Registration is required to download the tool.

.NET 3.5 SP1, VS2008 SP1 And TFS2008 SP1 Released

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1

More On Another Way For Using The “using” Keyword

In the past I presented another possible use for the using keyword: as hints on LINQ . I’ve been giving some thought about this lately and refined my proposal. var q = from person in personCollection using MyEnumerableExtensions group person by person...

How About Property Assignment And Collection Adding Like Object And Collection Initializers In C#?

C# 3.0 introduced object and collection initializers . It is now easier to initialize objects or collections: var person = new Person { FirstName = "Paulo" , LastName = "Morgado" }; var persons = new List < Person > { new Person...