Webcast: What's new in C# 4.0

If you missed my webcast this Tuesday on what's new in C# 4.0, the recording is now online. Enjoy!

LINQPad 2.0

The public LINQPad 2.0 release candidate is now available, featuring first-class support for querying WCF Data Services, SQL Azure, MySQL and SQLite. There are builds for both Framework 3.5 and the upcoming Framework 4.0.

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell - now in stock!

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell includes everything in the acclaimed C# 3.0 in a Nutshell - plus 200 additional pages on C# 4 and CLR 4.0 features. The book is the product of immense production effort and has been combed rigorously by top technical reviewers.

10 LINQ Myths

The ten most common misconceptions, and how they set people awry.

C# 3.0 Pocket Reference + LINQ Pocket Reference

These books are for people that want to eat their cake and have it. Despite their small size, they don't sacrifice readability or detail and are packed with useful and complete information on C# 3.0 and LINQ. These books, in fact, may be all you need to get up to speed with the C# language and LINQ!

LINQPad

Ever used SQL Management Studio and wished you could type your queries in LINQ, rather than antiquated SQL? Well now you can! LINQPad is a free tool that lets you dynamically query SQL databases in a real query language: you'll never have to struggle with a correlated subquery again!

Query Express

This simple and free 100KB database query tool written in C# allows SQL commands to be run interactively on SQL Server, Oracle or an OLE-DB compliant databases. It includes an object browser, text/grid results, saving to XML/CSV format, and support for batching via the 'GO' keyword. No installation required. Full source code available. More on Query Express...

Threading in C#

An extensive article on multithreading in C#. This tackles difficult issues such as thread safety, when to use Abort, Wait Handles vs Wait and Pulse, the implications of Apartment Threading in Windows Forms, using Thread Pooling, Synchronization Contexts, Memory Barriers and non-blocking synchronization constructs. Full Contents

Dynamically building LINQ expression predicates This describes a simple and elegant solution to the problem of dynamically composing Expression<> based predicates in LINQ.

Speeding up LINQ to SQL Three ways to squeeze the maximum performance out of this technology.

Value Types vs Reference Types A tutorial explaining how value and reference types work in C# and .NET. This covers the differences in the way objects are created and disposed, how memory allocation works, and common traps.