Anders Hejlsberg at Mix

blogs.msdn.com — Anders came back from Mix reporting that attendees were excited about Silverlight, the light-weight, cross platform CLR that can be delivered in a browser. He gave a talk at the converence. You can see the video.... read more...

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Community Convergence XXII

blogs.msdn.com — The March CTP for Visual Studio, creating Art with LINQ, videos showing how to write LINQ to SQL, interviews with core members of the Microsoft C# team. read more...

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LINQ Farm: One to Many and Joins

blogs.msdn.com — This post is the latest in a series of posts on LINQ. It continues the exploration of LINQ to SQL by showing several intermediate level queries. LINQ to SQL provides developers with access to relational databases from inside a CSharp program. I'm going to show three different queries in this post. The first will demonstrate how to create a simple one-to-many, the second how to create a one-to-many that spans three tables, and the third will show how to create a simple join. read more...

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LINQ Farm Connecting to a Database with LINQ to SQL

blogs.msdn.com — In this post I will show connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server Express from C# using LINQ. You can use the May 2006 CTP to run the code shown in this post. The May CTP installs on top of Visual Studio 2005. At the time of this writing, the March 2007 Orcas CTP is not yet out, but once it is out, then you should use it, or later versions of Orcas, as the preferred means to run LINQ queries. The screen shots shown in this post are taken from both the May CTP and pre-release versions of Orcas. Except for a few minor details, LINQ will look much the same whether you use the May CTP or an early build of Orcas. read more...

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Installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and the May LINQ CTP

blogs.msdn.com — Now that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 is out I wanted to post a brief note about using it with May LINQ CTP. When reading this post, please note that this is not an official Microsoft advisory, but simply the result of my personal experience. read more...

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Notes on the January CTP

blogs.msdn.com — The January CTP (formerly known as the December CTP) should be out shortly after the new year. We are sorry about the delay; it is due in part to the huge December 14 storm that knocked out the power for over a million residents here in the Seattle area. read more...

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LINQ Query Operators

blogs.msdn.com — Understanding LINQ Query Operators, the third in a series of articles on LINQ. read more...

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The LINQ Farm: Query Expressions

blogs.msdn.com — In this post I'm going to explain the query expression found in my previous blog entry on LINQ. My goal in this set of posts is to get first time users of LINQ up and running. Subsequent entries will continue to explore query expressions. read more...

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