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• Using Lambda statement blocks with LINQ May CTP

  The new LINQ CTP also support lamba statement block, instead of only expressions. Still only expressions are compilable to expression treeds though (hence the name *expression* trees..) Anyway, this offers the opportunity to do away with anonymous method Read More... Posted Friday, June 23, 2006 7:04 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, Linq, C# 3.0

• Restoring Smart Tags in the C# IDE after installing LINQ Preview May 2006

  When you have installed the latest LINQ preview and have installed the Language Service, you wil notice that all of a sudden all the smart tags and refactoring commands stop working. The first time I solved this by reinstalling VS (somewhat harsh and Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:54 PM by Raimondb | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, Linq, C# 3.0

• Strong typed XLinq : experiment 1

  I've been experimenting with XLinq, so that you can just use class names. So instead of XElement(”Foo”) you just write Foo. This reduces the number of code lines even further, and also allows for more Intellisense and compile time checking. Read More... Posted Sunday, November 06, 2005 8:05 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, C# 3.0, XLinq

• The Real Future of Windows: "Singularity" ?

  Microsoft watch writes that Microsoft research has been building a new micro kernel based OS from scratch. And it's all written in managed code! Not completely in C# though (and not in VB.NET either ), but also a portion in Sing# which is a derivative Read More... Posted Sunday, November 06, 2005 12:37 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005

• XLinq talk on december 9th

  I will be giving a talk for Software Developer Network ( www.sdn.nl ). I will be covering how XLinq works, how it is related to Language Integrated Query and what are its advantages over traditional Xml programming. The talk is part of an SDN Software Read More... Posted Saturday, November 05, 2005 12:25 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, C# 3.0, XLinq

• LINQ Preview updated to VS2005 RTM

  If you are (just as I am) impressed with LINQ and think I will fundamentally change the way we write programs, you just need to get the refresh that is available to make it work on the release version of Visual Studio 2005. Get it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq Read More... Posted Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:48 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, Linq, C# 3.0

• UI Design guidelines for Vista

  At MSDN you can now download preliminary UI guidelines for Windows Vista. It is a whopping 20MB in the form of a web site and contains a lot of useful information. In the guidelines, all (new) Controls are mentioned and their appropriate use. I was pleased Read More... Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:52 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, WPF

• New link pages for the PDC's technologies

  With all the new stuff, I decided to create a new Link Page to keep track of all these new things.. Read More... Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:36 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005

• Back from the PDC05

  After again a long flight of almost ten hours, and then some by car to get home from Schiphol (airport), I'm home again. While the PDC is over, the fun just starts. Now is the time to get all the information gathered from the PDC organized, further researched Read More... Posted Sunday, September 18, 2005 10:39 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005

• Windows Workflow Foundation

  Microsoft has announced workflow technology to be part of the base framework you get with WinFx (I already hinted at it in this post). So what does it mean? Basically, it is designed to offer human workflow as well as systems workflow. Because it is a Read More... Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 4:27 PM by Raimondb | 3 Comments Filed under: Connected Systems, .NET, PDC 2005, WWF

• Language innovations in C# 3.0

  In the previous post I mentioned the whole language integrated query thing. As it turns out, the query part is not actually the part where the most ‘magic’ occurs. Having the query functionality really relies on new additions to the C# 3.0 Read More... Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 4:25 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, C# 3.0

• Some more on Linq and C# 3.0 language extensions

  I've been following various sessions today at the PDC on Linq and the C# 3.0 language extensions that are the base foundation to make this work. As the LINQ framework is really cool, I think that goes maybe even more for the language enhancements. Read More... Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:22 AM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, Linq, C# 3.0

• The PDC until Day 1

  So today was the first day of the PDC event. Sunday and monday I've followed the preconferences on SQL 2005 and the 2005 BI tools. I must say I was quite impressed with the capabilities and features of the BI part. Especially the integration services Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:55 AM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005

• A session planner tool for Microsoft PDC 2005

  As I've posted before, I will be going to the Microsoft PDC this year. Of course you want to prepare for such an event an make a rough draft planning for the sessions you're going to follow, because otherwise you might get lost in the 200+ session Read More... Posted Sunday, September 04, 2005 7:40 PM by Raimondb | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Cool tools, PDC 2005

• A session planner tool for the PDC 2005

  How to build and use a tool to convert the Microsoft PDC session abstracts to Outlook appointments Read More... Posted Sunday, September 04, 2005 6:16 PM by Raimondb | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, Cool tools, PDC 2005