Don Xml's Grok This

There has (finally) been some hype around VB 9's XML Literal stuff.  Cory Smith noticed it, and yesterday, Scott Hanselman blogged about them.  Last week I recorded a 2 part episode on LINQ to XML and VB's XML Literals for .Net Rocks TV (DNRTV), and Carl just release the first part.  For the first episode, I cover querying XML ...

In my recent Syntactic Sugar presentation I was trying to get to the essence of good code, and come up with something a little more concrete than Code Smell, when I ran across exactly what I was looking for in one of my new favorite bloggers, Wes Dyer, post Immutability, Purity, and Referential Transparency.  That post contains a lot of ...

If you happen to be an MVP and attending the MVP Summit, or just happen to live in the Seatle area, Jeff Palermo has organized a little get-together Sunday night.  All are welcome.  Just leave a comment to let him know you will be attending.  I'll be there, along with the usual suspects.  Just check out the list of ...

It looks like the next 2+ months are officially LINQ months on my calendar.  If you happen to be going to the Heartland Developers Conference, I'll be doing 2 LINQ based talks on Thursday, Oct. 26th. The Visual Basic Intro to LINQ presentationIntro To LINQ - Reinventing Visual Basic Track : Store It Day : 1 (2:30PM - 4:00PM) ...

I finally got around to downloading the Orcas September 2006 CTP bits, and started to play with it a bit.  If you want to play along with me, you can download it here, or if you have a MSDN subscription, it is up there too (and I think the download times from the MSDN Subcription are a bit better, plus you get to stop and resume the ...