Archives
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Hunting down bad try..catch blocks
Way too often developers take the easy solution to use try..catch blocks to silence and ignore exceptions.
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ISBN-13 to ISBN-10
If for some reason you need to convert an ISBN-13 to ISBN-10 (one being that Amazon doesn't support ISBN-13 in product affiliate links) then you need not only to remove the first three characters. You also need to recompute the checksum.
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LINQ in Action samples source code
LINQ in Action won't be available as a paper book before January, but the e-book is already available in preview, and of course .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 are there. This is why we are now able to publish the complete source code for all the samples included in the book (this includes updated source code for LINQ to Amazon). Feel free to download it even if you don't own the book (yet) and provide feedback in the book's forum.
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Use the power of let in your LINQ queries
Often, when you try to find out how to write the correct LINQ query you need, you end up being confused because it becomes too complex. In such situations, you should remember that the let clause is here to help you.
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LINQ in Action forum
Did you know that a forum dedicated to LINQ in Action is available? It was already available from the book's web page at Manning, but we've just added a link to it in the top menu of this site so it can be found more easily. You can use this forum for posting comments about the book and for discussing about LINQ with the authors (Steve, Jim, and I).