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Babysteps: LINQ To SQL

Posted in .net 3.5, LINQ, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas" on August 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Okay I had some free time to spend on LINQ To SQL and because I’m working on a new personal project for the future (God only knows if I’ll ever finish it ). I need in my database a table “Countries”. Because I don’t want to create a script to load this table and I [...]

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Download alternative for Visual Studio .Net 2008 beta 2

Posted in Visual Studio .Net "Orcas", Visual Studio .Net 2008, msdn on July 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Most of you know the problem with downloading big files from the microsoft site. at least I do. Most of the time it’s not very fast and downloads also get interrupted frequently. I’m not saying this only due to the microsoft site so don’t get me wrong here
Now microsoft is testing a new piece [...]

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How to ignore a blogging career ?

Posted in .net, .net 2.0, .net 3.0, .net 3.5, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas", Windows on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »

That’s simple buy a house that needs to be finished in the meantime switch jobs and on top of that move out of your current appartement.
I’ve not been writing as much as would like, but I can’t seem to find the time. Lately I’ve been watching more closely to LINQ, Nhibernate, EDM, Windows Server [...]

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Get a history of the evolution to LINQ

Posted in .net, .net 3.0, .net 3.5, LINQ, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas", Visual Studio .Net 2005 on June 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Anson Horton wrote a very nice article for the MSDN magazine June 2007 edition. It gives you an overview of how LINQ (Language Integrated Query) has evolved from the idea of the concept to an actual technology. A nice extra on this article is that he shows a lot which new language features in [...]

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Dynamic Data Controls (ASP.NET Futures CTP)

Posted in .net, Asp.net, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas", Visual Studio .Net 2005 on June 6, 2007 | No Comments »

If you want a small introduction for the dynamic data controls that exist in the ASP.NET Futures CTP. You can watch the webcast below:

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Get started with Expression Blend and Design

Posted in .net, .net 3.0, Expression Blend, Expression Design, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas", Visual Studio .Net 2005, WPF on June 6, 2007 | No Comments »

F or those that like to get started with the new Microsoft products Expression Blend and Expression Design. You should check out these links below. They give you access to tons of FREE video tutorials hosted by lynda.com
Links:
- Getting started with Expression Blend
In Getting Started with Expression Blend , Lee Brimelow covers all the basics [...]

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Installing Microsoft Codename "Astoria"

Posted in .net 3.5, Astoria, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas" on May 12, 2007 | No Comments »

Since I’m going to take a further look at the Astoria project I’ve installed the necessary pieces to get started. Here I will give a brief overview on what to install.
The pre-requisites are:
- Visual Studio .Net Codename “Orcas” beta 1 Standard, Professional or Team Suite edition.
note: The Visual Web Developer Express Codename “Orcas” edition will [...]

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Astoria video

Posted in Astoria, Silverlight, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas" on May 10, 2007 | No Comments »

On the Mix 07 website you can download the session that introduced the Astoria project. It was presented by Pablo Castro. The nice thing is that you can view as a Silverlight plugin, download the WMV or if you have a Zune download on there.
& wmv & zune

Silverlight video

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New technology to play with

Posted in Astoria, Silverlight, Visual Studio .Net "Orcas" on May 10, 2007 | No Comments »

I was reading through my feeds when I found a post of Bart De Smet that summed up some of the newly announced “stuff” at Mix 07 .
One announcement in particular caught my eye it was the project codenamed Astoria . Astoria is a technology that will expose a data store through an ADO.NET Entity [...]

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