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 targeted to anyone wanting to learn LINQ with C#...

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. If you’re interested in the future of the Microsoft...

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 List window like with the compilers. I whish that...

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.LastName into g using new MyOtherComparer () orderby...

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 { FirstName = "Paulo" , LastName = "Morgado"...

(This was pointed out to me by Frans Bouma and explained by Jon Skeet ) Imagine you have this set of classes: public class A { public virtual string P { get { return "A" ; } } } public class B : A { } public class C : B { public override string P { get { return "C" ; } } } And this class: public static...

Like I said before , this as been on the back of my mind for a while. A while back I introduced a way to get the MethodInfo of a method in a strongly typed way using LINQ , and that's how I'm going to make Reflective Mocks more Natural . Well, it's as easy as this: public static class MockExtender {...

With IIS7 a new transfer method is available in the HttpServerUtility class . It's the TransferRequest method . What this method is intended to do is behave like the HttpResponse.Redirect method without the penalty of traveling to the client and back . I said "is intended to behave" because it still...

From my article on Page Modules some people might have gotten the wrong impression that this would be the only way to get a reference to the page given its path, but it isn't. You can use the System.Web.UI.PageParser.GetCompiledPageInstance method to get the reference to the page before calling the System...

It’s finally out! The LINQ Com C# (LINQ With C#) book that Luís and I wrote is out. Well, mostly Luís than I. This book, published by FCA , is targeted at anyone that already knows C# 2.0 and wants to know learn the new features introduced with C# 3.0 that made possible LINQ (Language INtegrated Query...