Erwyn

Love the Holland shirt, Dan! Thanks

For poeple thinking that Google was first with Street View, think again: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/28/killer-new-livecom-service-street-side/

 

Microsoft Street Side dates back to 2006, so it predates Street View.

The audio level is very low for this video. Running Silverlight 3.0.40818.0 on Win 7 RTM. The volume indicator in the Windows Volume Mixer barely moves beyond 5% when volume is fully cranked up in the Silverlight player and for IE in the Volume Mixer.

Nice interview. Unfortunately a lot of the WinFS stuff seems to have been edited out at about 42m45s into the video. There is a sudden jump to Peter's vacation plans.

I posted a review of this video on my blog. Here is the entry:

Last Friday a Channel9 video appeared with Anders Hejlsberg and Sam Drucker talking about LINQ and Entities. They talk about raising the level of abstraction for programmers when programming against data. Anders makes a very good point at 6m42s that LINQ adds a level of abstraction without taking away capabilities at the bottom level (like writing your own SQL query). The loss of capabilities at the bottom often happens when the level of abstraction is being raised. Anders says: “We are very conscious of not sliding the spectrum up but growing the capabilities.”

At the end of the video (at 21m58s) we get a glimpse into the reason behind the retraction of the MSDN Article called Next-Generation Data Access: Making the Conceptual Level Real which was also about this subject. Microsoft was working on two parallel tracks (ADO.NET vNext and LINQ) on different teams and is now struggling with realigning those efforts.

The Entity concept will be part of the next version of ADO.NET. Note that I no longer call this future version ADO.NET 3.0, since this might cause confusion with the version number of the next version of the .NET Framework itself. LINQ and ADO.NET vNext will NOT be included in the .NET Framework 3.0. Instead .NET 3.0 will contain ADO.NET 2.0. Confusing isn’t it?