Through the Interface

I've mentioned before how much I appreciate the content on MSDN's Channel 9.

For those of you who are familiar with C# 1.0, but haven't yet taken the time to dive into the language features introduced since then, I strongly recommend the "whirlwind" series posted on Channel 9.

Here's a quick description of what these whirlwinds are all about:

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.

Here are links to the individual whirlwinds:

• What's new in C# 2
  • Whirlwind 1 - Generics
  • Whirlwind 2 - Iterators
  • Whirlwind 3 - Partial Types, Anonymous Methods
  • Whirlwind 4 - Accessors, Static Classes, Nullable Types
• What's new in C# 3
  • Whirlwind 5 - Automatically Implemented Properties, Type Inference, Initializer
  • Whirlwind 6 - Anonymous Types, Extension methods
  • Whirlwind 7 - Lambda Expressions
  • Whirlwind 8 - LINQ

I like the short format and can see it being relevant to individual (or small groups of) API features exposed by our products (a little like mini-DevTV sessions). If any of you have input about the concept, please post a comment or send me an email, ideally letting me know of specific topics in which you'd be interested.