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Sunday, October 02, 2005

Blog Search Engine Comparisons - Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Technorati, Feedster and Ice Rocket

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You might have noticed that I've been adding Technorati subject tags to the end of my posts since mid-September. The most common tags ar...
Saturday, October 01, 2005

Compose XML Content with XLinq Expressions and VB 9.0 XML Literals

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My XLinqTestProjectVB project expands on the VB 9.0 examples included in Erik Meijer's " XLinq: XML Programming Refactored (The Ret...
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Thursday, September 29, 2005

Jon Udell: LINQ 101

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InfoWorld 's Jon Udell continues his investigation of LINQ and XLinq features with the C# implementation by demonstrating "a three...
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More on Object-XML and Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch

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In a very early (late 1950's) avatar, I was a studio and transmitter engineer for Berkeley's listener-sponsored FM station, KPFA an...
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Delphi to Adopt LINQ Technology

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eWeek 's Darryl K. Taft writes in " Borland Plans to Support MS LINQ in Delphi Platform ," published September 17, 2005: Micr...

CyrusN's C# 3.0 and LINQ Tutorials

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Cyrus Najmabadi, a developer on Microsoft's C# team has started a series of tutorials on C# 3.0 and LINQ: So what's the deal with ...
Monday, September 26, 2005

Comparing C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 LINQ Syntax

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Prior to LINQ's introduction, differences between the C# and VB (.NET) languages were almost exclusively syntatical. The .NET Framework...
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Amanda Silver, Paul Vick, and Erik Meijer VB 2005 Interview

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Carl Franklin interviews the VBTeam's Amanda Silver and Paul Vick, plus the SQL Server group's Erik Meijer (a.k.a., VBTV's ...
Friday, September 23, 2005

XLinq Presentation at the XML 2005 Conference

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Erik Meijer will present " XLinq: XML Programming Refactored (The Return of the Monoids) " at Atlanta's XML 2005 Conference o...
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Jon Udell: Microsoft driving toward .Net unity

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The InfoWorld Test Center's lead analyst, columnist, and blogger-in-chief says: "LINQ is an extraordinary innovation that turns tr...
Monday, September 19, 2005

LINQ Interview with Anders Hejlsberg and Paul Vick

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InfoWorld columnists Jon Udell and Tom Yeager interviewed Anders Hejlsberg and Paul Vick at PDC 2005. Here's a link to the 27:41 Podcas...
Sunday, September 18, 2005

Cure Data Type "Impedance Mismatch" With LINQ

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This article from Fawcette Technical Publications' .NET Insight newsletter describes how to install and test the C# 2.0 and VB 8.0 imp...

Michael Rys' Personal Take on XLinq and XQuery

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Michael Rys has posted his view of the relationship between XLinq's XPath-based query language and XQuery here . He's also posted ...

Erik Meijer Selects VB as His "Language of Choice"

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Erik Meijer recently posted a " Visual Basic and LINQ " guest entry to the Lambda the Ultimate programming-languages Weblog in wh...
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Saturday, September 17, 2005

Bill Gates Podcast on the LINQ Project

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Infoworld 's Jon Udell recorded a half-hour podcast interview with Bill Gates on September 13, 2005. The interview includes a serveral-...
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Erik Meijer on LINQ as a 6GL Language Feature

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Erik Meijer is one of the primary contributors to Microsoft Research's Cω (C-Omega) language and the forthcoming C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 versi...

WinFS and the Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Project

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Microsoft's pre-PDC release to MSDN subscribers of WinFS Beta 1 bits was a surprise to the trade press, as well as most .NET developers....
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The Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Project

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Two features once promised for Visual Studio 2005 are conspicuous by their absence in VS 2005 Beta 2 Community Technical Preview drops: A...
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Roger Jennings (--rj)
Oakland, California, United States
I'm a Windows Azure Insider, a retired Windows Azure MVP, the principal developer for OakLeaf Systems and the author of 30+ books on Microsoft software. The books have more than 1.25 million English copies in print and have been translated into 20+ languages.

My latest books are Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform for Wrox and Microsoft Access 2010 In Depth for Que.

I'm also a contributing editor for Visual Studio Magazine, write for Redmond Developer News, and contribute to TechTarget's SearchCloudComputing.com blog.

Full disclosure: I make part of my livelihood by writing about Microsoft products in books and for magazines. I regularly receive free evaluation software from Microsoft and press credentials for Microsoft Tech•Ed and PDC. I'm also a member of the Microsoft Partner Network.
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