Don Xml's Grok This

I spent the last week in Seattle and Redmond, attending both the MVP Summit and the ALT.Net Conference, and spent the majority of time discussing the future of programming, both on the .Net platform and other platforms.  By Saturday night, my brain was pretty much on extreme overload.  One of the things I've been doing a lot of over the ...

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 ...

If you happen to have seen any of my Intro to LINQ - Reinventing Visual Basic talks, you wouldn't be that surprised by "semi-announcement" of VBx.  Paul Vick and Amanda Silver have the details that have been released to the public, and there is also a mention of VBx in this Silverlight poster.  Paul Vick has ...