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Whirlwind 8: LINQ

bruceky — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:17:16 GMT

Bruce Kyle of Microsoft and Stuart Celarier of CheckFree explore the new languages features in C#. It's a whirlwind tour of the important language features since C# 1. Stuart describes the feature and why it is useful. But doesn't get into best practices nor suggested usages. Just the facts about the feature.

Whirlwinds are bite-sized webcasts, usally each is shorter than 15 minutes. You can start anywhere in the series to learn about the parts you're most interested in.

In the final episode, Stuart's fingers get itchy. And instead of slides, he open up Visual Studio and shows code. This time, he shows how LINQ takes advantage of the new language features that are explained in the other Whirlwind episodes.

He uses a code example in Visual Studio to show to use the C# language features to write a query using LINQ to Objects. He compares the same query using LINQ and extension methods that each contain a lambda expression. Next he describes the use of LINQ providers.

These features are part of C# 3 in .NET 3.5.

This screencast is also a great way to get started in with lanugage integrated queries (LINQ) or to explore the various ways you can use LINQ.

Duration: 16:53

Other Whirlwind episodes: What's new in C# 2

Other Whirlwind episodes: What's new in C# 3

Whirlwind 6: Anonymous types, Extension method
Getting Started with Windows Workflow
Stuart's Visual Stuart blog.
For more information of interest to software developers, see the US ISV blog

Whirlwind 7: What's New in C# 3 - Lambda Expressions

bruceky — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:10:55 GMT

Bruce Kyle of Microsoft and Stuart Celarier of Whirlwind 1 - Generics

Whirlwind 3 - Partial types, Anonymous methods

Whirlwind 5 - Automatically Implemented Properties, Type Inference, Initializer

Getting Started with Windows Workflow

Stuart's Visual Stuart blog.

For more information of interest to software developers, see the US ISV blog

Whirlwind 6: What's New in C# 3 -- Anonymous types, Extension methods

bruceky — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:33:21 GMT

Bruce Kyle of Microsoft and Stuart Celarier of Whirlwind 1 - Generics

Whirlwind 3 - Partial types, Anonymous methods

Whirlwind 5 - Automatically Implemented Properties, Type Inference, Initializer

Other videos of interest

Getting started with ASP.NET AJAX

More information

For more information about this topic, see Stuart's Visual Stuart blog.

For more information of interest to software developers, see the US ISV blog

Whirlwind 5: What's new in C# 3 - Automatically Implemented Properties, Type Inference, Initializer

bruceky — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:13:49 GMT

Bruce Kyle of Microsoft and Stuart Celarier of Whirlwind 1 - Generics

Whirlwind 3 - Partial types, Anonymous methods

CheckFree explore the new languages features in C#. It's a whirlwind tour of the important language features since C# 1. Stuart describes the feature and why it is useful. But doesn't get into best practices nor suggested usages. Just the facts about the feature.

Whirlwinds are bite-sized webcasts, each is shorter than 15 minutes. You can start anywhere in the series to learn about the parts you're most interested in.

Part 4 is about accessors, static classes, and nullable types. Stuart shows how the features are similar to features in C# 1. Stuart explains how to write diferent accessors on properties. He explains the syntax of the ? that can be added to a type and the ?? operators. He shows how to determine if a value is null.

These features are part of C# 2 in .NET 2.0.

Duration: 9:40

Other Whirlwind episodes: what's new in C# 2

Whirlwind 2 - Iterators

Whirlwinds are bite-sized webcasts, each is shorter than 15 minutes. You can start anywhere in the series to learn about the parts you're most interested in.

In Part 3, Stuart describes partial classes and anonymous methods. He describes why you'd use them and the syntax of each language feature. This features is part of C# 2 in .NET 2.0.

For more information about the language features of C# 2, see Stuart's blog at VisualStuart.NET

For up-to-date information for developers, see the Whirlwind 1 - Generics

VisualStuart.net

Previous Whirlwind episodes

Whirlwinds are bite-sized webcasts, each is shorter than 15 minutes. You can start anywhere in the series to learn about the parts you're most interested in.

In Part 1 about generics, Stuart describes:

What generics are.
How generics compare with collections.
How the compiler treats generics.
He also describes how generics increase performance and save memory.

This feature is part of C# 2 in .NET 2.0.

Duration: 7:00

What's new in C# 2

What's new in C# 3

Other videos of interest

Getting started with ASP.NET AJAX

More information

For more information about this topic, see Stuart's Visual Stuart blog.
For more information of interest to software developers, see the US ISV blog

ASP.NET AJAX 100

bruceky — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:28:31 GMT

Bruce presents a step-by-step how to for those who want to get started using ASP.NET AJAX. The screencast includes the creation of a user control to put on the page, enable the page to use ASP.NET AJAX using ScriptManager, add an UpdatePanel, add the control to UpdatePanel, and then add an UpdateProgress control. The step-by-step is designed for you to follow along and provides each step that you'd need to know to build the control and then put it into an ASP.NET AJAX page.

Getting started: Windows Workflow (WF) 100

bruceky — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:05:01 GMT

Bruce provides the very first basics in using Windows Workflow. This 7-minute screencast shows how to get started screencast that tells you how to create a workflow project, how to author a basic sequential workflow, how to set breakpoints and debug code, and how to drag and drop activities.

For the next screencast for Workflow, see