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• Demo Files for the Open XML SDK Session at PDC

  Zeyad presented this morning on the Open XML SDK at PDC. You can view the video of the talk here – it’s on day four, titled Open XML Format SDK: Developing Open XML Solutions. (The video will be available sometime on 10/31/2008). The demos for that talk are attached as a zip file to this post. Some of these demos use the Adventure Works database. You can download that database here . This blog post provides my checklist for getting going with LINQ to SQL quickly. Great job on the talk, Zeyad! J Read More... Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:42 PM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: OpenXML, OpenXmlSdk, PDC2008

• Anders Hejlsberg Introduces C# 4.0 at PDC 2008

  [Blog Map] Anders Hejlsberg presented a fascinating and entertaining session at PDC 2008 on C# 4.0 . He talked about dynamic typing, optional and named parameters, improved COM interoperability, and improved support for co-variance and contra-variance. These language improvements are very cool – they enable us to write code that more closely expresses our intent, with less syntactic noise. Carve out some time, and watch his PDC session . Anders is a dynamic presenter, so you won’t be bored! Dynamic Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:41 AM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: LINQ, OpenXML, LINQ to XML, PDC2008, Functional Programming, Dynamic Types

• Build a Document Assembly Solution using Open XML SDK V2 in 5 Minutes

  You can build very powerful document assembly solutions using the Open XML SDK V2 literally in just a few minutes. In our presentation at PDC 2008, amongst other demos, Zeyad Rajabi and I will demonstrate this in a live coding session. We'll be using the LINQ friendly features of the SDK. It really is a quite a remarkable set of tools, and if you are an Open XML aficionado, you really should attend our session! But even more important than that, we really want to see you, and hear your questions Read More... Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 4:50 PM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: LINQ, OpenXML, LINQ to XML, OpenXmlSdk, PDC2008, Functional Programming

• Zeyad Rajabi Talks about the Open XML SDK V2

  Zeyad is one of the Open XML document format program manager s within the Office division, and has started a series of posts on the Open XML SDK V2 . His first post on the Open XML SDK V2 tells you want it is (and what it is not), why you would want to use it, provides a number of important links related to the SDK, and describes the important scenarios that the SDK addresses. Zeyad and I will be presenting together at PDC 2008 on the Open XML SDK. Read More... Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 11:52 AM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: OpenXML, OpenXmlSdk, PDC2008

• Anders Hejlsberg Talks about C#, Mentions Dynamic Language Features for C# 4.0

  In a must-read October 1, 2008 interview with Computerworld , Anders Hejlsberg talks about the history of C#, the motivations behind some of the language design decisions, and mentions that the C# team is looking at supporting dynamic programming. From the article: “I think that C# is becoming one of the first widely adopted multi paradigm programming languages out there. With C# you can do object oriented programming, you can do procedural programming, now you can also do functional programming Read More... Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:38 AM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Book Recommendations, PDC2008, Functional Programming, Dynamic Types

• PDC 2008 – USB Hard Drive with All the Bits

  Now this is just cool – all attendees at PDC 2008 will receive a 160GB hard drive that contains all the bits. I remember in the past, attending conferences brought (for me) an unwelcome task – collecting and organizing all of the CDs/DVDs, making sure that I got all the ones I wanted, etc. This is brilliant. Some folks have been confused by what the Software + Services PDC will be about. In this 5 minute video on Channel 9, Mike Swanson explains how Software + Services will transform how we’ll think Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:07 AM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: PDC2008

• PDC2008

  I’m really excited about PDC2008, and the cool, new technology that we’ll be showing - the future of C# and ASP.NET. Since I’m a bit of a language geek, I’m personally looking forward to the sessions on the future of C#, and IronRuby. And learn about building business applications using Silverlight. I believe that this is the wave of the future. Also Live Mesh, Office Communications Server, SQL Server 2008, FAST, Silverlight, Oslo, Visual Studio Team System, Virtualization, SharePoint, Dynamics, Read More... Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 4:16 PM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: PDC2008