Archive for the ‘Visual Studio .Net “Orcas”’ Category

Babysteps: LINQ To SQL

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 certainly [...]

Download alternative for Visual Studio .Net 2008 beta 2

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 [...]

How to ignore a blogging career ?

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 [...]

Get a history of the evolution to LINQ

 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 C# [...]

Dynamic Data Controls (ASP.NET Futures CTP)

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: Print PDF

Get started with Expression Blend and Design

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 [...]

Installing Microsoft Codename "Astoria"

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 [...]

Astoria video

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 Print PDF

New technology to play with

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 [...]

Visual Studio Orcas Beta available !!!

I saw the notice on Informationweek that Microsoft released a beta of the VS.net Orcas. Find out more here. Print PDF