What's Rockin' in Singapore

This is it - the "mother of all demos": The demo with EVERYTHING (well, almost...  ) - ASP.NET 2.0, Atlas ASP.NET AJAX, all the .NET 3.0 components (Windows CardSpace, Windows Communications Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation), Windows Live Maps, Vista Sidebar Gadgets, PowerShell, .NET Compact Framework, ....

Click the image on the left to see a demo walkthrough video; then go download the source code from CodePlex.

Now, if we can only tie in an OBA in there somewhere (dinner ordering from Outlook, anyone?) and life will be so sweet!

A presentation on my favorite programming language by one of my software heroes. Go to Anders Hejlsberg - C# 3.0: Future Directions in Language Innovation on  msdn ShOwtime.

New features:

• Local variable type inference (should save developers many keystrokes)
• Extension methods
• Lamda expressions
• Object initializers
• Collection initializers
• Query expressions
• Anonymous types (dynamic type inference -- cool!)
• Expression trees
• Automatic properties (finally!)
• ..which aggregates to give us - LINQ

i'm convinced that enterprises who have invested into .NET will find this extremely exciting -- and not only from the productivity gains perspective. LINQ more importantly represents a breakthrough in approaching application design and development, simplifying how architects and designers think and work with different data sources (sql, xml) and paradigms (relational, entities)

...and here i am, just becoming comfortable with generics and predicates...

To start working with C# 3.0, download the Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" - October Community Technology Preview (CTP).