Paulo Morgado

E-Reference Library Subscription Discount Offer for The Community

Microsoft Press has created an exclusive discount URL for the E-Reference Library that MVP s can pass along to the broader community without any limitations or restrictions. To create a trial subscription, community referrals should use the Trial URL...

StyleCop 4.3 Is Out

The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool . You can get it from here . On this version there are some bug fixes, new rules and documentation. Also in this version, the list of errors and warnings goes to the Errors...

VHD Resizer: Tool For Resizing VHD Files

While installing SQL Server 2008 in a Virtual PC virtual machine I run out of disk space. Looking around, I found this great tool: VHD Resizer . Registration is required to download the tool.

.NET 3.5 SP1, VS2008 SP1 And TFS2008 SP1 Released

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1

More On Another Way For Using The “using” Keyword

In the past I presented another possible use for the using keyword: as hints on LINQ . I’ve been giving some thought about this lately and refined my proposal. var q = from person in personCollection using MyEnumerableExtensions group person by person...

How About Property Assignment And Collection Adding Like Object And Collection Initializers In C#?

C# 3.0 introduced object and collection initializers . It is now easier to initialize objects or collections: var person = new Person { FirstName = "Paulo" , LastName = "Morgado" }; var persons = new List < Person > { new Person...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Expected Next Week

According to the MSDN Subscriptions home page , we should expect Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 availability after August 11, 2008.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008

SQL Server 2008 is finally out and comes with the Entity Framework , which means that SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework is almost out.

Serialized In-Process ASP.NET Session State Store

ASP.NET provides out of the box three session state stores: Provider Description InProc Session state is stored in the ASP.NET cache. SQLServer Session state is stored out-of-process in an SQL Server database. StateServer Session state is stored out-of...

C# And Visual Basic Generate Different Expression Trees

(This was pointed out to me by Frans Bouma and explained by Jon Skeet ) Imagine you have this set of classes: public class A { public virtual string P { get { return "A" ; } } } public class B : A { } public class C : B { public override string P { get...