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February 2008 - Posts

Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:03 PM

New and Updated Live API's for Web Developers

A series of new or updated API's that developers can use for building web applications are available from the Windows Live Dev site. The new services and API's are listed below. Go to Dave Treadwell's post to read about them in more detail. New or Updated
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:47 AM

Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers

I've recently updated the list of LINQ Providers found on my Links to LINQ page, accessible from the News section on the left of this blog. I'm sure there are other providers available. Feel free to write me or append a comment if you want to add to this
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Friday, February 22, 2008 12:52 PM

Video of Luke Hoban's In-Depth Look at C# 3.0

Last fall in Barcelona, Spain two PM's from the C# team gave talks on key parts of the new LINQ technology found in Visual Studio 2008: Luca Bolognese : LINQ to SQL: Accessing Relational Data with Language Integrated Query Luke Hoban : Microsoft Visual
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:58 PM

LINQ to SQL and SQL Server 2008

Faisal Mohamood , the LINQ to SQL Program Manager, has posted about the work his team has been doing in preparation for the next release of LINQ to SQL. Faisal says that his team has added support for new T-SQL data types that will be found in SQL Server
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:28 PM

LINQ Books

Books on LINQ LINQ in Action by Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert, Jim Wooley, and Matt Warren Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 by Joseph C. Rattz Professional LINQ (Programmer to Programmer) by Scott Klein LINQ Quickly by Satheesh, N Kumar
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:54 AM

LINQ Farm Seed: Using the Expression Tree Visualizer

The Visual Studio 2008 CSharp samples include several valuable tools that LINQ developers can use to help expedite the development process. One of the is the Expression Tree Visualizer. This tool works in both Visual Studio Express and the other versions
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:08 PM

LINQ Farm Seed 02: Aggregate Operator Part II

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts designed to be read in a few minutes. In the previous seed we used the first overload of the C# 3.0 LINQ Aggregate operator to sum a list of numbers. In this post we'll work with a list of words. The code we will look at
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:00 PM

LINQ Farm Seed I: Aggregate Operator Part I

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts designed to be read in a few minutes. The first seed showed how to list in alphabetical order all the operators used in LINQ to Objects. At the top of the list one found the Aggregate operator. The LINQ Aggregation operator
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:15 AM

Index of Posts Updated

When discussing the design of a technical web site, I usually advocate finding ways to improve the community's ability to rate content, comment on articles, tag articles and dynamically search for articles. I advocate creating a dynamic web site because
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Monday, February 04, 2008 10:46 PM

LINQ Farm Seed 0: Operators in LINQ to Objects

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts, designed to be read in a few minutes. This one covers enumerating the operators used in LINQ to Objects. The source code for this project is available in the LINQ Farm on Code Gallery. The LINQ to Objects operators are
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