It's taken a while to reach this decision, but Friday will be my last day at Microsoft. I'll be taking a week off (imagine all the housework I can get done...) and starting work at a company where I expect to be working on a lot of R&D and prototypes...

With the release of LINQ, the ASP.NET MVC Preview, and Server 2008 with IIS7, I've finally gotten over the web-developer's block that has prevented me from porting my old website off of Zope. So I'll be posting to my revised website from now on. ...

Just something I decided to try cobbling together tonight. Didn't take more than a few minutes, trying to type quietly (didn't want to wake anyone). It allows you to do things like: var q = db.Customers.Where( new Customer { CustomerID = "EASTC" }); ...

In my last post I rendered some opinions on how to approach using LINQ to SQL in an encapsulated manner.  In response, several folks requested I put together some more concrete examples.  I have now done so.  Pardon the high code-to-text...

One of the most frequent questions we've received about LINQ to SQL deals with fitting it into the classic three-tiered scenario. That is: Presentation --- Logic --- Data I know someone somewhere is going to accuse me of heresy for what I'm about...

For some reason I decided to write some PowerShell functions to manage checking out projects from CodePlex, and updating them in batch. It makes use of the CodePlex Client (cpc), which allows anonymous access to CodePlex's TFS repository. They're fairly...

Tomorrow, D-Wave Systems with either become a laughing stock, or the state of computing will arguably have advanced by 20 years. They plan to demonstrate a 16-qubit computer running two commercial apps simultaneously, and repeat the feat on Thursday...

I decided to play around with the idea of a multi-threaded Select extension. This could be useful, for example, if you're creating a system that farms out work to various web services and have a limited number of connections to use. Attached should...

Brian Beckman shows off a simple hash join in LINQ , using VB9. The performace boosts reinforce some work my partner and I did, experimenting with load-time generated indexes over collections. There was a significant hit incurred when creating the...

A customer posed a good question to me the other day: outside of relational databases, what good is LINQ ? As an example, he suggested a chemistry drawing application. I couldn't help him directly on the GUI aspects, but I decided to figure out, given...