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Bill Wagner Article on Dynamic Method Bags in C# 4.0
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Tuesday, Nov 3 by Bill Wagner

How to Detect and Avoid Memory and Resource Leaks in .NET Applications
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Monday, Nov 2 by Fabrice Marguerie

A Chance to Influence the MSDN Visual Studio Documentation (Help System)
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Thursday, Oct 29

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Visual C# Community Convergence

Community Convergence provides C# developers and managers with updates on events in the C# community. If you have any questions or thoughts you want to share, go to my blog to leave comments.

Community Convergence LVI
Welcome to the fifty-sixth community convergence. As you probably know by now, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has been released on MSDN and will be available to the general public on Wednesday, October 21, 2009. I’ve worked with the team to create a wide range of technical material designed to support this release, and I will call out each item out here in this post. Be sure to check out the new How Do I and Interview videos, the samples, and the great posts by Alexandra Rusina. In other news, we’ve gotten word that the SoCal code camp will be held right after PDC this year. If you live in the LA area, this is a great chance to see some of the Microsoft speakers who will be presenting at PDC. From the C# Team How Do Videos on C# 4.0 How Do I Use Named and Optional Parameters in C# 4.0? (with S... more

Team and Community Blogs

HDI Video: Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010 with Karen Liu
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Saturday, Nov 7 by Charlie Calvert

Classic, Lightweight and ScriptFree MSDN Library Views
There have been a number of changes to the MSDN library... more
Friday, Nov 6 by Charlie Calvert

Simple names are not so simple, Part Two, plus, volcanoes and fried foods
I've returned from a brief vacation, visiting fr... more
Thursday, Nov 5 by Eric Lippert

New Article by Bill Wagner on Dynamic Method Bags in C# 4.0
C# MVP and wunderkind Bill Wagner has written an articl... more
Tuesday, Nov 3 by Charlie Calvert

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Peter Ritchie
Read Peter's articles Reducing code-bloat with anonymous methods and Inferred Typing with Factory Methods as Extension Methods.

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Featured Library Content

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ExpandoObject Class (Visual Studio 2010 Beta)
You can dynamically add and re... more
Friday, Nov 6

Covariance and Contravariance (Visual Studio 2010 Beta)
Variant generic interfaces and... more
Friday, Oct 30

What's New in Visual C# 2010 Beta
This page lists the new and en... more
Tuesday, Oct 20

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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is Here
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CodeRush Xpress
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