September 2005 - Posts

DLinq Mapping: External Or Not (Attributes or XML file)
At PDC (and before that on ObjectSpaces project), this was a hot discussion topic. What approach is better: attributes or external source like an XML file. I would like to open up this topic beyond the 1:1 conversations at PDC to the blogosphere. I will Read More...
Posted 19 September 05 11:14 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 27 Comments   
Connected, Disconnected and DLinq
Here is another FAQ question that has come up at PDC. Since DLinq is a part of the next version of ADO.NET, it is natural to ask - is it connected or disconnected? After all, we have talked about connected vs disconnected components in ADO.NET quite a Read More...
Posted 16 September 05 01:53 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 4 Comments   
Code for my DLinq Demo at PDC
Here is the code for my demo during David Campbell's (DAT200, 11am Wednesday) session titled "Future Directions for Data-Driven Applications ...". Of course I don't have the video for showing the code in multiple steps starting from scratch. But here Read More...
Posted 16 September 05 11:17 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 5 Comments   
ObjectSpaces -> DLinq
Soon after Anders + Don demo in PDC keynote, several folks asked me about ObjectSpaces. It was one of my favorite projects (notice the past tense). But it is time to talk about its future rather than past. The future of ObjectSpaces is DLinq. We used Read More...
Posted 13 September 05 02:20 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 17 Comments   
C# 3.0 at PDC 2005
If you are coming to PDC and are expecting something special from the C# team, you won't be disappointed. My colleague Matt has already given as much of a preview as we can (to avoid spoiling a good surprise), so I will stick to the sessions to watch Read More...
Posted 09 September 05 10:42 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 1 Comments   
How to identify a Nullable<T>
Before the recent Nullable<T> changes , some of you may have used INullableValue to find a Nullable<T>. We could debate the issues with writing code that uses a "marker" interface but here I want to just provide a solution for deciding if Read More...
Posted 09 September 05 10:12 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 0 Comments   
IComparable in the new Nullable<T> world
Our VP, Soma posted about the last minute changes to Nullable<T> in Visual Studio 2005. The changes have been available in August CTP for a while and comments have been coming in. Keep them coming. Here is a thumbnail sketch of what the recent nullable Read More...
Posted 08 September 05 11:44 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 7 Comments   

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