This is Episode #2 of This Week on Channel 9 a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more. This week we cover: 0. Changes to the show based on feedback, our name...

We just released a Community Tech Preview download of Visual Studio Orcas Express, the next version of Visual Studio Express. Kudos to Doug for arguably the coolest beta page on MSDN ever (pictured above) We need your feedback As John mentions in his...

I thought I would take a second and post how you can create your own Extension Method. An extension method is a specially defined method that acts like a method defined on a type. LINQ operators, like from , where , select , etc are implemented using...

Larsenal , a C9’er posted a comment on the C9 forums about the Introducing LINQ video and asked a really good question so I thought I should repost my response here. Larsenal's Question “ I've watched this video on LINQ in C#. If the type is set at...

Do you have questions, comments or thoughts on how we could improve the LINQ Project ? Please let us know! One of the key reasons to announce LINQ so early in the development cycle is to get feedback on how we can improve the product . With that goal...

...is now available on MSDN as an HTML page, the LINQ Project Overview . Huge thanks to Don and Anders (and the many, many others that contributed to this doc) as I think it's really the best overview of all of the LINQ capabilities. Read it, study it...

The LINQ Project On Tuesday September 13, 2005, Anders Hejlsberg did the first public demo of the LINQ Project in the Jim Allchin keynote. What is LINQ you might ask? LINQ stands for L anguage IN tegrated Q uery and in a nutshell, it makes...