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Hooked on LINQ
Troy Magennis has started a community resource web site about LINQ: Hooked on LINQ.
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LINQ to Objects for JavaScript
Nikhil Kothari, whose blog you should visit immediately if you're doing web development, demonstrates how to reproduce LINQ to Objects in JavaScript.
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Visual Studio 2006 is available
I've just downloaded Visual Studio 2006 err.. Visual Studio 2005's first service pack. Well, it's a 431MB download... Not bad for a patch.
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Save money on .NET tools with SharpToolbox
Some .NET tool publishers have started running special offers on SharpToolbox. Look for the "special offer" sticker on the home page.
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Lambda expressions in VB
Looks like VB is going to get support for lambda expressions after all. Paul Vick is discussing about the syntax.
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LINQ videos from TechEd Developers 2006
Troy Magennis has the scoop: some of the talks given at TechEd Developers last month in Barcelona are now available on MSDN's ShowTime.
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Charlie Calvert's LINQ posts
Charlie Calvert, who some of you may know for the years he spent at Borland or for his books on Delphi, joined Microsoft in July as the Community Program Manager for the Visual C# group.
Charlie has a blog full of C# and .NET community information. As part of his activities, he started a series of posts on LINQ: -
Linq productization, where are we?
I've been quiet on the blog side lately. So many things are keeping me busy!
It's time to catch up a bit and share with you some information I collected over the last weeks. For example, here is the information we have today on the productization of Linq into Visual Studio "Orcas".
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Sysinternals tools now available from Microsoft
The integration of the Sysinternals tools and site by Microsoft is complete.
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Removing diacritics (accents) from strings
It's often useful to remove diacritic marks (often called accent marks) from characters. You know: tilde, cédille, umlaut and friends. This means 'é' becomes 'e', 'ü' becomes 'u' or 'à' becomes 'a'. This could be used for indexing or to build simple URLs, for example.
Doing so is not so easy if you don't know the trick. You can play with String.Replace or regular expressions... But do you know .NET 2 has all that is required to make this easier?