Thanks to the new language features such as LINQ, Extension Methods and Lambda in .NET 3.5, working with arrays is as easy as one line. Just by including a reference to the System.Linq namespace in your .Net 3.5 project you automatically get so much functionality it's not even funny. Let's take for example...

Last night I attended the Sarasota .NET Developers Group monthly meeting and got to hear another great talk by Jonathan Carter (who has also spoken at the Tampa and Jacksonville code camps recently). Most of the talk was spent on LINQ, starting off with LINQ to Objects and then building from there into...

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The Atlanta Code Camp was today, so I finally got to give my LINQ and O/R Mapping talk that I've been preparing. I tried to have minimal slides so that I could do a deep dive into real code, but I still went a little too long. The slides look great on my own PC, and in fact they're mostly some...

Registration for Atlanta Code Camp 2007 on January 20th is now open. Space is limited and fills up fast, so do NOT delay registering -- it's free. Thanks to Jim Wooley for putting this together this year. I'll be presenting a session titled "Linq and O/R Mapping" that will be lots of...

Building functions instead of expression trees. The functional programming features of the latest versions of C# allow developers to harness a very expressive programming paradigm to solve challenges in new, elegant ways. Two of the very interesting new features are the “Func<>” delegate and the...