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Since I'm talking about conferences, I should also mention that I'll be giving a full day pre-conference workshop, LINQ — One Query Syntax to Rule Them All at VSLive! San Francisco 2008: By now you have probably already heard about LINQ and think it is all about querying SQL Server. Well, yes, with LINQ to SQL you can query SQL Server. ...

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 ...

Kathleen Richards, from Redmond Developer News, gave me a call yesterday asking my thoughts on the news that the Entity Framework slipping from Orcas, so she could write up this article on the news.  I'm slowly learning how to deal with reporters, and on the fly figure out what I can say, and what I can't.  Man, I would have loved to ...

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 ...

Entities, Datasets and Objects, Oh My: Making sense of the Microsoft Data Platform Vision.  As Developers, we're now challenged with three different ways of dealing with data and a number of platforms for working with it. In this session, we will look at LINQ to DataSets, LINQ to SQL, and LINQ to Entities (Entity Data Framework) This ...

Intro To LINQ - Reinventing Visual Basic  Reinventing Visual Basic Introduction to .Net Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and its effect on how you will write programs with VB 9.0. Is object oriented programming the problem? Is functional programming a solution? This is the presentation and sample code.  The sample code ...

I have a habit of browsing the Microsoft Careers site looking for interesting tidbits of information, and I just found yet another, PLINQ - Parallel Language Integrated Query.  Since I subscribe to Joe Duffy's Blog, I've been keeping up to date with his work with Concurrency and Parallelism in the CLR (read his 2 MSDN Mag articles for ...

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 ...