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Linq Differences

This morning I was reading a blog post by Neil Cowburn , of OpenNETCF fame, that talked about the lack of support for Linq in the Outlook object model for the .NET Compact Framework/Windows Mobile. Having played around with Linq a while ago I was surprised...

Linq To Entities Walkthrough

This post follows on from my previous comments on the Orcas Beta 1 The first thing you will need to do if you want to work with the Entity designer in Orcas Beta 1 is to download and install the fix (see my previous post ). This does NOT appear to include...
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Orcas goodness from the VB team

As Bill has pointed out (and again ) the VB team have a number of webcasts lined up. In fact the SDLC Blog has a great summary of dates, times and a brief abstract here. Here is the quick list so you don't miss out: Wednesday, April 25, 2007: VB9 – LinQ...
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Going Occasionally Connected with Orcas

Visual Studio vNext (aka Orcas) has a number of features that is set to make building occasionally connected applications really really easy. Since downloading the Beta 1 bits I have been trying to get my head around all the improvements and changes that...

Bill takes on RSS with VB9

Bill has converted the C# only Orcas Beta 1 RSS Feeder example into VB9. In his conversion he has illustrated how Linq further reduces the need for iterators. There are a couple of note worthy points from this example: Try and work out exactly where each...
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VB9 Features

I've just noticed, care of Bill and Beth , that the VB9 features article has been updated as of February this year. After a quick scan there are some clear changes that look great (and some that don't)! Object Initializers Dim c as New Country With {...
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Community Sites

In this spirit of community portals (such as the Daily Developers , SqlServerCE.org and NetFx3 ) I thought that I should blog about a cool site that Andrew Parsons (don't forget to order your copy of Professional Visual Studio 2005 today...) just pointed...
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