Erick Thompson is at SQL PASS and will be doing a talk on Entity Framework for DBAs tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon.
You can get a preview of what he will be talking about by reading his recent post on the topic.
Daily Archives: September 18, 2007
Three great MSDN LINQ resources for VB developers
While there are many great LINQ resources for VB, I happened to read/watch/see these and wanted to be sure to point them out.
1) Lisa Feigenbaum’s LINQ Best Practices webcast. Lisa is on the VB team. This webcast is full of great insights and tips.
2) Timothy Ng’s Basic Instincts: Lambda Expressions article in the current (Sept 07) issue of MSDN Magazine. I’ve spent so much time trying to interpret lambda articles written in C#. Having one written specifically for VB devs is awesome and this article gently leads you into the complexities in a very easy to comprehend way.
3) 101 LINQ Samples for VB (yay!) was posted a few weeks ago. LINQ to Objects, to SQL, to XML and to DataSets. Don’t go looking for LINQ to Entities yet though.
Two Vermont Software Companies on Inc’s 5000 list
Inc’s 5000 list was recently released and among the 9 Vermont companies on the list there are two software companies, both based in South Burlington.
iTechUS ranked 113 on the whole list and #11 in IT companies. In New England it is ranked #1 in the IT Services companies. www.itechus.com
Dealer.com ranked 578 in the full list. While they are a software company, their industry is listed as advertising and marketing. In that category they are #55. www.dealer.com
Astoria CTP Refresh for VS 2008 Beta 2 is out
Just a quick pointer to Pablo Castro’s announcement that a new CTP for Astoria is out that will work with vS2008 Beta2.
An important note, this is a refresh of the CTP, which is based on the early prototype. The actual production code that they are working on is a totally different set of bits. Hmm, for safetey’s sake, I better just quote Pablo:
NOTE: let me stress that this is a refresh of the May CTP, which is based on the initial prototype of Astoria. All of the features/design options we’re discussing here in this blog (e.g. last post about payload formats) are in the context of the production version of Astoria which we are in the process of building. The production version incorporates a ton of feedback that we received over the last few months plus our own more detailed thinking of what should the system look like. So expect to see quite a few differences between the CTP and the production code once we start shipping the production version. The principles will all be the same, but the details will vary.