Maybe you know about this, but I saw it first few days a go. I officially in love. LINQPad is a cool little utility that was mainly created to allow you to test LINQ expressions and see them produce a result and output the results in a nice easy to visualize format. It's great for running LINQ Queries without having to fire up Visual Studio. LINQPad is also a great way to learn LINQ: it comes preloaded with 200 examples from the book," C# 3.0 in a Nutshell " written by Joseph...
Microsoft released a nice training kit (~126MB) (it's a real treasure!) for the latest technologies. This package covers a bunch of technologies and includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual Studio Team System Application Lifecycle Management C# 3.0 VB 9.0 LINQ WPF WCF WF Silverlight ASP.NET AJAX CardSpace Mobile...
NET 2.0 introduced Anonymous Methods . The idea behind anonymous methods it to write methods inline to the code. They are mainly used for small methods that don't require any need for reuse. For example, we have this code: 1: bool isGreaterThan5( int n) 2: { 3: return n > 5; 4: } 5: 6: ... 7: 8: int GetGreatersThanFives(List< int > numbers) 9: { 10: return numbers.Find(isGreaterThan5); 11: } We can code it with anonymous method: 1: int GetGreaterThanFives(List< int > numbers) 2...