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February 2007 - Posts

• Visual Studio Orcas March 2007 CTP

  Microsoft has just released a new Orcas preview. This new version is supposed to include almost all the functionality from the LINQ May 2006 CTP and more. LINQ features in this version include: VB 9.0: Query Expressions (Basic querying, filtering, and Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:59 PM by Fabrice Marguerie | 9 Comments

• PLINQ presentation: A query language for data parallel programming

  Joe Duffy works on parallel libraries, infrastructure, and programming models in Microsoft's Developer Division. This involves doing prototyping on PLINQ, a set of extensions to LINQ that automatically optimizes and parallelizes query operations based Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:49 PM by Fabrice Marguerie | 0 Comments

• Orcas February CTP delayed to March

  As can be seen in Dinesh Kulkarni's post in the official LINQ forum, the Orcas CTP that will be on par with the features of the May 2006 LINQ CTP will be the Orcas March 2007 CTP. This release should include support for LINQ to SQL, which hasn't appeared Read More... Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 11:33 AM by Fabrice Marguerie | 0 Comments