October 2005 - Posts

• Updated LINQ bits for VS 2005 RTM

  We're all very excited about shipping VS 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 ! Woohoo! Our earlier LINQ Tech Preview release worked as an add-on to VS 2005 Beta 2, and we are happy to have an updated LINQ release that works with the final VS 2005 bits. See the Read More... Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 8:27 PM by scottwil | 6 Comments

• Cédric Beust on C# and Java language directions

  Cédric Beust of the Java community has a post today comparing Microsoft and Sun approaches and language directions: Sun starts thinking about the Next Java. Microsoft delivers it . --Scott Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:54 AM by scottwil | 6 Comments

• O'Reilly OnDotnet.com interveiw with Anders Hejlsberg

  O'Reilly's OnDotnet.com has an interview with Anders Hejlsberg by John Osborn: C#: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: An Interview with Anders Hejlsberg, Part 1 . It's a good read. --Scott Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:41 PM by scottwil | 0 Comments

• Meeting with student developers in Slovakia

  As I mentioned in an earlier post , I spent this week in England and Slovakia doing some training and meeting customers. I spent some time with Miroslav Kubovcik, a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Slovakia, getting to know him and what he does. We Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:09 AM by scottwil | 3 Comments

• My Cross-Pond week

  I spent last week doing some training and customer visits in London, England and Bratislava, Slovakia. At a high level, Microsoft consists of two parts: A product development organization, centered mainly in Redmond, organized around products. A sales, Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:04 AM by scottwil | 1 Comments

• Larry O'Brien and SD Times coverage of LINQ

  Larry O'Brien has an SD Times opinion piece and several blog posts on LINQ : Select * From IQF : " Microsoft’s Integrated Query Framework (IQF) and Language Integrated Query (LIQ)—code-named Project Clarity—are the most important low-level innovations Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:08 PM by scottwil | 2 Comments

• eWeek article on Microsoft's commitment to developers

  Darryl Taft of eWeek has a long article today that talks about Microsoft's commitment to developers, and the role developers have played in making the platform successful. Microsoft Celebrates 30th Year as Developer's Company : " Microsoft last month Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 12:19 PM by scottwil | 1 Comments

• MVP Summit

  The MVP Summit is wrapping up today. Unfortunately, I can't attend today's events (my wife is in Santa Fe, so I'm on kid duty for the whole weekend), but I do have a few minutes to blog about it. Microsoft MVP 's, who are spread throughout the world, Read More... Posted Saturday, October 01, 2005 6:57 AM by scottwil | 1 Comments