LINQ

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: Mike Swanson - MIX 10 Recap Interesting because: MIX10 is going to be BIG this year and Mike discusses everything going on with the event  Coding4Fun - Brian Peek - Tweevo (download) - A…

How will imperative programming languages evolve to suit the needs of developers in the age of Concurrency and Composability? What role can programming languages play in enabling true composability? What are the implications of LINQ on the furture of managed  (CLS-based) and…

I recently caught up with some of the technical minds behind ADO.NET's Entity Framework: Architect Michael Pizzo, Technical Lead Pablo Castro and Director of Program Management Britt Johnston. What's an Entity Framework, you ask? Well, watch and learn all about this new ADO.NET…

If you haven't heard about it, DinnerNow is a demo app that shows off... well, just about everything. WPF, WCF, Powershell, and more. If you like what you see here, head out to the DinnerNow site for links to the application and the source. Fun group of people. Jason Olson was there, too -…

"Special" guest host Ed Kaim is in the studio as Dan is down covering GDC. This week's episode includes - Microsoft announces DreamSpark - Free software for students - Max Zuckerman interviews Bill Gates on what he would do if he was 17 again. - XNA announces Community…

You first met Bart De Smet in an episode of Expert to Expert with the great Erik Meijer leading the conversational charge. LINQ-to-Anything was a very popular E2E episode and the 100th installment of Going Deep. If anybody in the world is an expert in LINQ-to it's certainly…

C# team members Shon Katzenberger, Scott Wiltamuth, Todd Proebsting, Erik Meijer, Peter Hallam, Anders Hejlsberg, and Peter Sollich were recently awarded a Technical Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement for their work on the C# language. This award is particularly meaningful to…

Erik Meijer is a computer science professor turned Microsoft Architect. He is responsible for things like helping to make VB.NET a great development language that supports constructs other managed languages can't or working on LINQ for C# and much more. He also leads an incubation team…

In this in interview Young Joo, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, talks about LINQ to SQL and the new O/R Designer in Visual Studio 2008. He demos a typical business client-server scenario and shows how LINQ to SQL classes make it much easier to work with relational data in SQL Server…

In this interview, Amanda Silver, a Lead Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, demonstrates new LINQ syntax around Joins and Aggregates that is now available in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. Amanda is a guru of LINQ in Visual Basic and gives insightful explanations of how to use this new…