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Which type should I use in C# to represent numbers?
Luca Bolognese, from the Microsoft C# team, has an interesting post that aims at providing answers to the following question: Which type should I use in C# to represent numbers?
Luca and the C# team try to provide a simple algorithm that can help when you are confused about the numeric types in .NET. It may not address every scenario, but it can be useful when you are lost between byte, short, int, uint, long, float, double, decimal, and their friends. -
Ohad Israeli's Developer's Toolbox
Ohad Israeli has made available the slides for the Developer's Toolbox presentation he gave recently. It's a good introduction to a bunch of tools he uses for .NET development. The PDF is here.
If you need more tools of the same kind, remember to visit http://SharpToolbox.com -
1001 tools and libraries for .NET
I can't believe how time flies! I've been so busy with several projects lately...
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PLINQ presentation: A query language for data parallel programming
Joe Duffy works on parallel libraries, infrastructure, and programming models in Microsoft's Developer Division. This involves doing prototyping on PLINQ, a set of extensions to LINQ that automatically optimizes and parallelizes query operations based on dynamic runtime information.
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Exception handling and resource protection with try..finally
Paul Sheriff has just published an example he uses to recommend the use of try..finally blocks. Here is his example:
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LINQ to XSD - Typed XML programming with LINQ
I haven't written about LINQ to XSD yet on this blog. So, here goes...
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Visual Studio Orcas January 2007 CTP
The new pre-release of Visual Studio "Orcas" is now available!
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Am I just a blog chain victim?
Ok, well actually that makes more than five points. I guess one thing I could add is that I don't know how to count correctly. Math and me, you know...
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Wes Dyers' reports from the C# compiler front
If you are the kind of guy fascinated by the C# language and LINQ who wants to know more about what's happening under the hood and how Microsoft is building these new toys, you should read Wes Dyer's blog. Wes is a developer on the C# compiler team. On his blog he relates his journey with the C# compiler towards version 3.0.
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Converting a CSV file to XML using LINQ to XML and Functional Construction
Steve has published on his blog a sample from the book we are working on together. This example shows how LINQ to XML makes it easy to convert a CSV file into an XML document.