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• Taking money from Anders Hejslberg

  Alex Turner's story about how he took $202 from Anders Hejlsberg is very amusing. And true! I remember that week before PDC 2005. There was a lot going on, including a last-minute name change. We had to change all of the PDC materials from "Clarity" to Read More... Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:38 AM by scottwil | 3 Comments Filed under: PDC05, C#

• Borland Plans to Support MS LINQ in Delphi Platform

  eWeek: Borland Plans to Support MS LINQ in Delphi Platform . " Microsoft announced its Language Integrated Query Project earlier this month, and already third parties are talking about extending their technology to support the software giant's heralded Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:46 AM by scottwil | 2 Comments Filed under: PDC05

• It's a small world after all

  I had two experiences this week that made me think "It's a small world after all." The first was at PDC last week. We set up a meeting with regional directors (RD's) interested in C#. I arrived a little late, so I missed introductions. During the our Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:42 PM by scottwil | 5 Comments Filed under: PDC05

• Even more LINQ news items -- Peter Coffee and Slashdot

  Here are a few more recent ones: eWeek has a Peter Coffee column: Access to Data No Longer the Weakest LINQ . " Offering PDC attendees more immediate gratification were Microsoft's rollouts of its data access integration technology, LINQ, for managed-code Read More... Posted Monday, September 19, 2005 2:15 PM by scottwil | 0 Comments Filed under: PDC05

• More LINQ news items

  I blogged earlier with some of the early news items and feedback on Language Integrated Query (LINQ). Here are some newer ones: ComputerWorld: .Net creator sees developer future with Linq . " As the man credited with creating .Net, Anders Hejlsberg has Read More... Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:07 PM by scottwil | 3 Comments Filed under: PDC05

• VB and Language Integrated Query (LINQ)

  Paul Vick gave a good PDC talk this morning on VB language futures. VB and C# are focused on enabling Language Integrated Query (LINQ) across objects, relational, and XML data, so there is significant overlap in the feature sets. Due to the differences Read More... Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:32 AM by scottwil | 0 Comments Filed under: PDC05

• Visual Studio Tools for Applications announcement

  I've worked at Microsoft long enough that some of the products I helped deliver are now a bit long in the tooth. As one of the people who helped deliver OLE Automation and Visual Basic for Applications (aka VBA), I was very happy to see today's announcement Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:34 PM by scottwil | 0 Comments Filed under: PDC05

• Language Integrated Query (LINQ) feedback

  We're getting strong feedback on Language Integrated Query (LINQ), both in-person at PDC and online. Here are some of the online sources I've been reading today: Channel9: customer comments on the Anders Hejlsberg LINQ video. CRN: Gates: Vista Workflow, Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:49 PM by scottwil | 5 Comments Filed under: PDC05

• Language Integrated Query (LINQ) at PDC

  Today at PDC , we announced and demo'd Language Integrated Query (LINQ). LINQ consists of language extensions to C# and VB, and a unified programming model that extends the .NET Framework to offer integrated querying for objects, databases and XML. While Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:33 PM by scottwil | 2 Comments Filed under: PDC05