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March 2007 - Posts

LINQ In Action early access is available

posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:29 PM by jwooley
The book Fabrice, Steve and I are writing, LINQ in Action, is available in early access form. If you are not familiar with it, the early access format allows you to buy the rights to read the book as we are writing it. Once it is published you will Read More
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LINQ to NHibernate

posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:18 PM by jwooley
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
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Orcas timetable posted

posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:41 AM by jwooley
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 Read More
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Anders does VB!

posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:59 AM by jwooley
I had the pleasure of attending the MVP summit last week and getting to network with a bunch of other MVP's and product team members. We are under NDA to discuss what happened in general, unless we get specific approval otherwise. One thing happened that I Read More
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VB 9.0 documentation

posted Monday, March 26, 2007 1:47 AM by jwooley
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. Read More
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Option Infer in VB 9

posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:23 PM by jwooley
With the upcoming language enhancements in VB and C#, some leads are concerned with code maintainability when not explicitly declaring the resulting type on an anonymous type. If you are not familiar with local variable type inference, here are a Read More
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VB 9 order of operations (correction)

posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:00 PM by jwooley
I need to correct to my earlier post regarding reordering of the query expressions in VB 9. With the exception of the From clause, we will be able to use whatever order of operators as we wish.I previously stated that the order by has been moved Read More
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LINQ Samples for March CTP

posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:40 AM by jwooley
Evidently the updated samples didn't make it into the March CTP drop. Fortunately, Charlie Calvert has come to the rescue and posted the updated samples on his blog. He even includes a brief overview video of the features included in the over 500 Read More
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LINQ In Action

posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:26 AM by jwooley
Well, Fabrice let the cat out of the bag. I have joined him and Steve Eichert  in working on what should be an exciting project. I will be writing the chapters on LINQ to SQL for the upcoming Manning Press LINQ In Action book. You can keep up Read More
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Converting from VB LINQ to Orcas

posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 12:58 AM by jwooley
I'm trying to convert the code for my upcoming ThinqLinq.com web site from the May 2006 LINQ CTP to the recently released March Orcas CTP. I'm finding that the upgrade process does require some manual intervention at this point. Below are the changes Read More
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Changed order of LINQ operators for VB 9

posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 12:52 AM by jwooley
With the March Orcas CTP, the order of operations has changed for VB LINQ Queries again. No, they have NOT moved Select back to the beginning. In this case, they have moved the Order By clause before the Select. In case you prefer a bit of code consider Read More
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C# 3.0 Auto-Implemented Properties

posted Saturday, March 03, 2007 4:00 PM by jwooley
I was looking over the help documentation included as part of the March Orcas CTP which I recently downloaded. I noticed that most of the documentation that came with the previous previews appears to have not made it into this release yet. If you Read More
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