yag: Community and Architecture : Linq

To Linq or Not To Linq, that is the question...

YAG — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:20:00 GMT

Jim Wooley just posted a great entry on his ThinqLinq site. It involves using Linq to XML and VB9's XML Literals to query Shakespeare's plays. He first joins all the plays on his drive together into one big XML file and then gets the top 50 characters by the number of lines they speak. Head over there to see the code. Very clean, IMO.

Those of you who know me know that I'm a Shakespeare fanatic and a pretty big fan of Linq also <g> - this post just made my day. Great way to (almost) start the weekend. Thanks, Jim!

German VFP, SQL Server and .NET conference in October

YAG — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:51:00 GMT

I'll be speaking at a conference in Frankfurt, Germany on November 8-10. I'll be keynoting the VFP conference and doing a session on VB.NET (including things like LINQ, Silverlight and future releases). This is one of my all time favorite conferences - Rainer really focuses on the attendees - great food, lots of chances for 1:1s with the speakers and other attendees, just an overall wonderful time. Click on the pictures to go to the website for the conference.

Interview with Erik Meijer

YAG — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:49:00 GMT

One of the best things about working on the Linq project was getting to work and have dinner with Erik Meijer. He's not only incredibly smart - but a fun person to hang out with. Mary Jo Foley has an interview with him in Redmond Developer News.

Off on another speaking tour

YAG — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:11:00 GMT

I'm heading out tomorrow morning to Atlanta and Knoxville where I'll be speaking at the following locations:

Atlanta FoxPro Users Group - speaking about Sedna
Atlanta Code Camp - speaking about Test Driven Development
East Tennessee .NET User Group - speaking in Knoxville about Test Driven Development (or maybe Linq)

I'll also be doing customer meetings at a bunch of locations. Should be a tiring, but fun trip. Hope to see you there!

yag

Great LINQ samples

YAG — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:26:00 GMT

Derek Slager has a post where he's calculating baseball stats using LINQ. As a baseball fan (Go A's) and a data guy, this was a lot of fun.

Here's one quick sample where he's calculating top winning pitchers:

from game in games
                group game by game.WinningPitcher into g
                orderby g.Count() descending
                select g;

Interviews online

YAG — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:36:00 GMT

I was interviewed by Level Extreme for two of their online magazines: .NET Magazine and Universal Thread Magazine.

In the .NET Magazine interview, we talked about my new position here on the Communities Team, .NET in general, Linq and a number of other things.

In the UT Magazine, we talked about Visual FoxPro, Sedna, and a little about my new gig as well.

It's always fun talking to the guys at Level Extreme. Thanks for getting in touch with me!

Linq May CTP released - and info on Query Trees and IQueryable

YAG — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:52:00 GMT

I mentioned this in my last blog entry, but thought I should make it more discoverable. We've released the May Community Tech Preview for Linq. Everything I talked about here at Devteach is available for the download.

I just spoke to an attendee named David who asked me whether we support adding nodes, etc., to the query tree or creating your own version of DLinq for custom data sources. The answer is yes! The documentation is in the CTP - and there is a great blog entry by Matt Warren here. Hope this helps!

Devteach update

YAG — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:44:00 GMT

It's almost 5pm on Wednesday - Devteach is moving along really well. The keynote went well - spoke all about LINQ, DLinq and XLinq and things that are now available in the new CTP. People liked the new LINQ designer, and my quick demo of Linq over Datasets (new to the CTP).

Yes, there is a new Tech Preview for LINQ - Check it out!

I've been going to a number of sessions as well as hanging out in the Ask The Experts lounge. My favorite session so far is Markus Egger's session on WPF - it was a really good introduction to WPF, why it's necessary, and XAML.

I'm on a panel discussing various data access approaches in about 45 minutes - should be fun.

For detailed coverage of DevTeach and its sessions, check out the Universal Thread.