Then start here. I myself have been curious about F# and have been for some time, and it appears I have stumbled across a fantastic post series by Kevin Hazzard.
Firstly:
Exploring the F# Language Series Part 1 – What is F#? (multi-part series)
Secondly why not check out:
Why F# is So Important to the Future of Software [...]
Found a presentation today given by Jason Zander (General Manager of Visual Studio) and Matt Carter (Product Manager) for Vista Squad today. It was actually recorded a little while ago, but I could not find much exposure to this video on aggregation sites such as DotNetKicks and DotNetShoutOut, so I wanted to make sure [...]
Just a quick thank you to the guys who do the MSDN Channel9 Weekly Show (Dan Fernandez and Brian Keller), I really appreciate the video review regarding my post “15 Helpful .NET Extension Methods to Increase Productivity” and the plug to my website! The extension methods were nothing special!
If you guys haven’t yet checked out [...]
Totally off topic, in fact incredibly off topic. But as I work away here with headphones atop, I can’t help but share an almost spiritual experience with a one of a kind album from a one of a kind artist; Infected Mushroom and their latest album Vicious Delicious.
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WARNING: Subjective offtopic opinion ahead
Alright folks, this is my arsenal of useful Extension Methods for .NET 3.0+ mostly written by me to help with development productivity.
Some real time-savers in here such as .ToInt() and .ToDateTime() (with and without a default fallback value), plus a simple RegEx matcher thrown into the mix and my CloneProperties method I wrote yesterday.
Included namespaces [...]
In part 1 of my Vista programming series I discussed how to add CommandLink’s to your application. In part 2 this chapter, I wish to discuss how you can enhance your Windows smart client application (primarily targetting Windows Forms in this example) adding a Windows Vista Aero “glass” effect to your application. That [...]
I had a case today where I needed to clone all properties of an object from one class to another of different types.
The originating type was a LINQ 2 SQL entity class type which represents the data model for my database table and the destination object which needed to be cloned to was a custom [...]
As another follow up to personalising Visual Studio (I covered theming the VS IDE with the Visual Studio Desert Nights Theme not too long back), I’d like to offer the settings I run on a dual monitor setup for Visual Studio to, I believe enhance productivity and gives you easier access to common tasks. You [...]
I stumbled upon a great article which describes how to create an inherited DataGridViewImageCell and inherited DataGridViewColumn control to achieve an image per row in your DataGridView.
In summary here is the custom control you will need, place in a DataGridViewCustomCell.cs or the like in your UI app or class library:
namespace DataGridViewCustomCell
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Before you rush and view my blockquote and jump to the conclusion “oh, it’s just that standard threading issue”, well let me assure you this is different to the norm, and please.. read on for the sake of how long this stupid article turned out Yesterday, was a very annoying day dealing with multi-threading [...]