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Friday, March 21, 2008 9:59 AM

Dublin VS 2008 launch - screencast of my LINQ demo

If you missed the Dublin launch of Visual Studio 2008 in Tripod on March 11th, or if you just want a recap of my talk, check out the below screencast. It has an audio track so break out the headphones - apologies in advance for the low key voice, you
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Friday, February 22, 2008 9:44 AM

CTP of VS 2008 support for SQL Server 2008

If you were at the Dublin community launch event on Feb 13th you saw an ASP.NET / VE / SQL Server 2008 demo that I put together during Dave's talk on Windows Server 2008. (Philip from MTUG was sitting beside me, not doubt a little concerned that I should
Posted by ronang | 2 Comments
Monday, January 21, 2008 8:47 AM

Free Microsoft Press E-Book (Introducing Microsoft LINQ)

Preview the first chapter from any of these Microsoft Press Visual Studio 2008 titles here , and then download the entire contents of Introducing Microsoft LINQ, as well as additional chapters from the other two titles. Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:14 PM

Hands-on LINQ learning material now available

The good follks at InnerWorkings ( http://www.innerworkings.com/ ) have just released 3 hours of hands-on LINQ learning material. Find out more at http://www.innerworkings.com/catalog/drills/D0047B-CS/linq-to-sql .
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:39 PM

LINQ to Entities Beta 2 and CTP of Entity Framework Tools

So far for me LINQ to SQL has been perfectly adequate and has just worked without any intervention needed.However, if you want to get more control than LINQ to SQL gives you then you might want to take a look at LINQ to Entities. I've yet to delve into
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:09 PM

Want to learn LINQ? Learn some of the new language features first - it will pay off.

As you can probably tell from the title of my last few posts I've been doing some work with LINQ over the last few days. Your life will be a lot easier if you learn about some new features in C# 3.0 before getting into it, so here are some resources I've
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Monday, August 27, 2007 4:04 PM

Debugging LINQ

I recently recorded a screencast on Javascript debugging (haven't put it up yet, watch this space) but one of the things that I covered was debug visualizers, which are a great alternative to the text-only property-name/value way of viewing state when
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Friday, August 24, 2007 4:21 PM

LINQ to SQL - compiled queries (with working example for beta 2), performance

I've been meaning to dig into LINQ performance for some time (actually since it came up during one of my interviews for this job), so I was interested to read a sequence of posts from some of the C# team, tracing the performance of LINQ to SQL from the
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Attachment(s): CompiledQueryExample.zip
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:44 PM

Take 5 - 5 time-saving features in VS 2008

Ok, in no particular order, here are 5 features in VS 2008 which are going to save me some time: Extender Wizard This is convenient for use with the AJAX Control Toolkit: to add an extender to a given control, just click the to show the popup menu below:
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