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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 syntax. See the sample below: no more explicit typing of your parameter, it will be ...

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 time consuming :-)) It turns out that you also kan have both LINQ and smart tags by fixing a ...

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. I put the results of this experiment in a little article. Please let me know what you ...

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 of Spec#, which is derived from C#. The main goal of the research project is to build an OS ...

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 Developer Event and the theme of the event is XML & Deployment. Of course, there are ...

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/

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 to see that it also contains a section about applying Windows Presentation ...

With all the new stuff, I decided to create a new Link Page to keep track of all these new things..

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 and put into action. So expect some more post from me on the subjects mentioned ...

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 framework you can host it in any application and use it. Think of it as having the BizTalk ...