geekSpeaks are a great opportunity for some innovative members of the developer community to show off what they've been working on.
One such fellow is Bart De Smet. As of this recording, Bart had only been with Microsoft for 3 weeks. We arrange geekSpeaks a few months in advance, so
technically…
We've got a great line-up for October. Join us live each Wednesday from noon to 1pm. Ask expert guests (working developers) tough questions about how they are using new technologies. Click on the links below to register for the live webcasts. We'll post
recorded webcasts…
In this episode, guest Garrett Serack from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center joins Peter to discuss CoApp, a new package manager for the Windows platform. Garrett tells us how CoApp will help make it easier for developers and users to build and
install open source software on Windows.…
Meet Luke Hoban, Program Manager on the C# Compiler team. Here, we talk about how LINQ works, from a compiler point of view. As you know by now, LINQ is a construct that is built of new language level innovations which of course must have compiler support...
As you might imagine, given the nature…
You might recall last year's introduction of the
ADO.NET Entity Framework and the Channel 9 discussion of this new managed data framework with Technical Lead Pablo Castro, Product Unit Manager Britt Johnston, and Principal Architect Michael Pizzo.
The ADO.NET team just released
Beta 2 of the…
I met Chris McConnell, an Architect on the Desktop Search team, in Barcelona at Tech Ed 2006. He mentioned to me that he had never met Anders and wanted to talk to him about LINQ over Desktop Search and get Anders' view of Intentional Programming. In true
Channel 9 fashion, I thought "OK.…
From the LINQ Project site (http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq):
“The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for…
In this in interview Scott Wisniewski, a Developer on the Visual Basic Team, talks about Extension Methods and shows us a couple interesting LINQ providers. In his own unique way, Scott dives into the meaning of Extension Methods and how they can
extend types with discoverable methods which are…