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• LINQ in Action going to press

  At long last, the process of doing my first book is coming to a close. I started this project last March. Through the process we had to revisit our work numerous times, including each time a new CTP or Beta drop came. For me, 10 months, and Fabrice 2 Read More... Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 3:16 AM by jwooley | 1 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• Annoucing ThinqLinq.com

  You may have seen me present it at a speaking engagement. You may have watched the podcasts . You may have even downloaded the sample application . Now you can see it in action. ThinqLinq.com is now live. The site was designed completely in VB with LINQ Read More... Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:46 AM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ, VB DevCenter, VB

• VS 2008 Beta 2 VPC images will timebomb on 11/1/2007

  If you downloaded the VPC image version of Visual Studio 2008 beta 2, make sure to back-up your data and move anything off of the Team Foundation Server before November 1, 2007. I was just informed that the images will be time bombing on November 1 2007 Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 6:13 PM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ, VB

• Adding RSS posts to ThinqLinq using System.ServiceModel.Syndication.SyndicationFeed

  When I originally started the ThinqLinq project I began by loading the RSS feed from my DevAuthority blog , and iterating over the results adding them to the PostItems table in the data context. With LINQ this is relatively easy. Loading the XML from Read More... Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 12:58 AM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ, VB

• Code Camp 2007 downloads

  I've uploaded the files for my presentations for the fall Code camp season which I just presented last weekend at the Birmingham, Alabama code camp . If you missed the talks, you can pick up the downloads at the following links. Also, I will be at the Read More... Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 9:22 PM by jwooley | 2 Comments Filed under: LINQ, Code Camp, VB

• LINQ to SQL Compiled Queries

  As LINQ nears release, people are starting to consider the performance implications that the extra overhead brings. Currently there are two threads on this: thread1 , thread2 . For those that are intested in the performance implications, I highly recommend Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:20 AM by jwooley | 1 Comments Filed under: LINQ, VB

• MSDN Events feature LINQ

  The August-October round of MSDN events sports a hot list of technologies, including LINQ and Silverlight. Make sure to register early for these sessions as they are sure to fill-up quickly judging fom the popularity of LINQ and Silverlight at the moment. Read More... Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 3:09 PM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• Thinq Linq webcast part #2 now available

  Part 2 of the Thinq Linq webcast is now available online . I'm pretty happy with this one in particular. It covers a couple key pieces of LINQ that aren't discussed much: Heterogeneous joins Updating disconnected data using LINQ. The LINQ to SQL designer Read More... Posted Sunday, July 08, 2007 9:34 PM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• Orcas Beta 1 Ships

  Today, Soma annouced that they have just shipped Beta 1 of Orcas! The home page for this drop is http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx . If you want, you can download the bits at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=36B6609E-6F3D-40F4-8C7D-AD111679D8DC&displaylang=en Read More... Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:48 PM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• LINQ articles on MSDN2

  When the previous LINQ CTP's were released, it was relatively easy to find the documentation. As LINQ is being "productized" into Orcas, finding the appropriate overview documentation has become much more difficult. While researching something for our Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:31 AM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• LINQ to NHibernate

  It was only a matter of time before more people started work on extending the LINQ structure to other providers. The lead author of the LINQ in Action book, Fabrice Marguerie created the first community one I know if to support LINQ queries over Amazon Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:18 PM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• Orcas timetable posted

  The Team Suite folks have posted the proposed timetable for Orcas including a breakdown of the proposed features for TFS. Check it out at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/teamsystem/bb407307.aspx (is it just me, or are the msdn2 sites getting much slower Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:41 AM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• VB 9.0 documentation

  The VB 9.0 documentation was recently updated. Unfortunately, it doesn't agree with the current bits. If you haven't read the documents from the previous LINQ CTP's, check it out at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms364068(vs.80).aspx . I took Read More... Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 1:47 AM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ