I just came across this: www.MyRampUp Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based program that can help users save time in learning Microsoft technology. The easy-to-access content (provided by subject-matter gurus) is specifically tailored to the Ramp Up program, and offered in a variety of forms (whitepaper...

Note: Code in italics is not actual C# 3.0 syntax. Local Variable Type Inference C# 3.0 brought us local variable type inference mainly because of LINQ . The output of a query can vary from an IEnumerable<T> or an IQueryable<T> to a single instance of T where T can even be a projection which...

If you were able to attend this session at PDC or Tech-Ed EMEA Developers , you were presented with a first class presentation of the future of C# , presented, respectively, by Anders Hejlsberg and Mads Torgersen . For the near future ( .NET 4.0) C# will have: Dynamically Typed Objects Optional and Named...

Visual Studio uses Publicize to create accessors public for private members and types of a type. But when you try to set elements of a private array of elements of a private type, things get complicated. Imagine this hypothetic class to test: public static class MyClass { private static readonly MyInnerClass...

C# 4.0 introduces a new type: dynamic . dynamic is a static type that bypasses static type checking. This new type comes in very handy to work with: The new languages from the dynamic language runtime . HTML Document Object Model (DOM). COM objects. Duck typing … Because static type checking is bypassed...

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.

I’ve learned from a fellow GASP er of the release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (aka StyleCop) . It’s still a work in progress but it’s already very useful.