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• C# + LINQ at TechEd 2007 in Orlando

  It has been a while since I posted but given the continuing response and the start of TechEd, it is time to restart. A number of us from the C# team are here: Luca Bolognese , Charlie Calvert , Karen Liu , Luke Hoban and Kathy Lu. Even if you can't join us in Orlando, you can still join us virtually for the talks and even ask questions. We have a great lineup of talks coming up: DEV324 - The .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Framework Tuesday, June 5 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, N320 A DEV338 - Microsoft Read More... Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 7:31 PM from Dinesh's Cyberstation | (Comments Off) Filed under: LINQ, C# Language, Data Access

• The DLinq Dilemma: SQL shall be SQL, and C# shall be C#, and never the twain shall meet

  With a tip of a hat to Rudyard and his ballad , I would say Oh SQL is SQL and C# is C#, and never the twain shall meet Till rows and objects manually a dev has both to beat But there is neither SQL nor C#, nor join nor dot When LINQ stands to link the twin what magic have I got Ballads aside, this is a real problem that we are grappling with. There is really nothing new about this problem - it is the problem of Object Relational Mapping (ORM). The two worlds are rules by languages and run-times that Read More... Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:37 PM from Dinesh's Cyberstation | (Comments Off) Filed under: LINQ, C# Language, Data Access

• The journey continues (musings of a LINQer)

  Good question - in the kitchen of course! The dish is now ready on the LINQ home page and our VP - Soma has a nice blog about it already. I feel exhausted but happy to be able to share the results of "our" work with you. The word "our" in English is strange - it has both inclusive and exclusive meanings. Here, I mean it the truly in inclusive sense - something that belongs to we + you. Not to be too corny but since the last PDC, many of you pushed us where we needed to be pushed. Repeatedly, you Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:53 AM from Dinesh's Cyberstation | (Comments Off) Filed under: LINQ, C# Language, Data Access

• LINQ Chat on Thursday Oct. 20

  We will have our second LINQ and C# 3.0 language chat on Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 1pm Pacific Time (GMT - 8:00). Last time we were overwhelmed with 5x as many questions as usual but hope to do better this time. Overall schedule of MSDN chats is at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/ Read More... Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 2:43 PM from Dinesh's Cyberstation | (Comments Off) Filed under: LINQ, C# Language, Data Access, PDC05