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Friday, March 16, 2007

"LINQ 2.0" in Early Returns from QCon 2007, London

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LINQ 1.0 hasn't hit RTM and "LINQ Creator" Erik Meijer is talking about LINQ 2.0 already . Tim Anderson blogs from the QCon ...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Persistence Ignorance Is Bliss, but Is It Missing from the Entity Framework?

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A brief item that appeared yesterday afternoon in Danny Simmons's system.data.objects dev guy blog led me to the March 13, 2007 "...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Yet Another Primer on New Language Features in Orcas

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Microsoft's Scott Guthrie has joined the choir of bloggers* serializing items about the new language features implemented by Visual St...
Monday, March 12, 2007

Updated LINQ SampleQueries and New LINQ to XML in VB Video

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Charlie Calvert has posted a further update to the March 5, 2007 version of the C# SampleQueries for the VS Orcas March 2007 CTP. The new ...
Friday, March 09, 2007

LINQ's Missing ToDataTable Method Saga

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Several LINQ pilgrims, including Julie Lerman , the authors of three books about LINQ ( two published and one in process ), Mike Taulty a...
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LINQ to XML Bridge Classes to System.Xml

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The XML Team posted on March 3, 2007 a more detailed description of the LINQ to XML bridge classes to System.Xml . This post includes simp...

Streaming with LINQ to XML Series

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The XML Team has started a multipart blog series on the topic of Streaming with LINQ to XML and the XStreamingElement class. The objectiv...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

VS 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista Released

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Microsoft has released an updated version of Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 for all Visual Studio 2005 editions. The Release Notes for V...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Critical Update for SQL Server 2005 SP2

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Microsoft has issued a critical update for SQL Server 2005 SP2 Workgroup edition and higher. The update does not apply to SQL Server 2005 ...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Orcas March CTP on Vista Database Connections Problem Solved

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An anonymous commenter provided the solution to the connection string problem I reported in my March 04, 2007 Orcas March 2007 CTP Installat...
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Monday, March 05, 2007

More About LINQ Changes in the Orcas March 2007 CTP

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Julie Lerman's A few of the many syntax changes in VB (and Linq for SQL queries) post describes changes to LINQ to SQL parameter, enti...

Updated Orcas March 2007 CTP LINQ C# Samples

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Charlie Calvert has posted updated replacements for all downloadable C# LINQ samples for the Orcas March 2007 CTP. You can find links to t...
Sunday, March 04, 2007

Entity Framework Issues in Orcas March 2007 CTP

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Following are ADO.NET 3.0 Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities issues and limitations excerpted from the Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Re...
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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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