Welcome to the forty-third issue of Community Convergence. The last few weeks have been consumed by the 2008 MVP Summit. During that annual event about 150 C# MVPs and many MVPs from other disciplines descend on Redmond for a technical summit accompanied by fun and games at local restaurants and hotels. Below I include a summary of the event by Jeremy D. Miller. One of the highlights of the event is a day in which the C# MVPs hear directly from the team about our plans for the future.

Other recent news includes the release of the Visual LINQ Query Builder, a tool for helping developers compose LINQ queries. Mitsu Furuta and others have been working hard on this project, and it is great to finally see it available for download. It is a useful programming tool for all LINQ developers, and especially for those who are new to LINQ and want some help learning the syntax.

From the C# Team

Luca Bolognese

• A C# library to write functional code - Part I - Background
• A C# library to write functional code - Part II - Tuples
• A C# library to write functional code - Part III - Records

Kirill Osenkov

• Coding productivity: macros, shortcuts and snippets
• Book review: Jon Skeet's C# in Depth

Charlie Calvert

• Charlie's Deck and Demos from his Essence of LINQ Talk

From the C# Community

MSDN Blog

• April 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine now online
• LINQ coverage in March MSDN Magazine
• Foundations: Vector Graphics and the WPF Shape Class
• Find Application Bottlenecks with Visual Studio Profiler
• An editor's top six pet peeves

Dustin Campbell

• The Blue Badge Cometh

Jeremy D. Miller

• A Train of Thought -- MVP Summit 2008 Edition
• Got var?

Mitsu

• Visual Linq query builder for Linq to Sql: VLinq

Scott Guthrie

• ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview
• April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Available
• Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls

Wriju

• LINQ to XML : Modifying XML document
• LINQ to XML : Changing connectionString in app.config
• LINQ to XML : Adding Namespace quickly
• LINQ to XML : Join Xml Data
• LINQ to XML : Working with Prefixes
• LINQ to XML : Working with Namespaces

Daniel Fernandez

• Live Mesh Launches

Charles Petzold

• Rounded Graphics in WPF

From the F# Team

Luke Hoban

• F# Session at TechEd Israel

Jomo Fisher

• Correct by Construction in F#