May 2008 - Posts
The ADO.NET team details on its blog what has changed for LINQ to SQL with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta:
Across the LINQ to SQL we have made numerous bug fixes, better SQL translation for queries comparing nullable columns in Visual Basic, and support both in the runtime and the designer for SQL Server 2008.
New SQL Server 2008 Support includes:
- Support for connecting to SQL Server 2008 databases in Server Explorer
- Drag & drop tables in SQL Server 2008 databases from Server Explorer
- Support for the following new types: Date, Time, DateTime2, DateTimeOffset, Filestream
The above is just for LINQ to SQL, but this service pack comes with lots and lots of updates and new features! The ADO.NET team also has a detailed list of what's new for Entity Framework, as well as a list of breaking changes for Entity Framework. The same kind of information can be found on the Astoria team's blog for ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria).
You can get a good overview of what's included in this service pack on Scott Guthrie's blog. There are way too many changes included to repeat them all here.
Note: Scott adds that "The debugger in VS 2008 SP1 has also been improved to provide more debugging support for evaluating LINQ expressions and viewing results at debug time. LINQ enabled data sources now have a "Results View" node show up within the debugger watch window. Expanding this node will evaluate a LINQ expression and allow you to examine the materialized objects it returns."
Cross-posted from http://linqinaction.net
LINQ in Action is doing well. We're all happy with the sales and all the reviews, on Amazon (5 stars on average) or on blogs.
In fact, the book is doing so well that the publisher has to print a second edition! We didn't expect that it would happen so soon :-)
We've updated the text where needed, according to the errata we've collected since the first edition was published, back in February. The new files are being sent to the printer right now.
If you see something else that could be improved (for the third edition...), feel free to post a comment to the new errata page or in the forum.
LINQ in Action can be found on Manning's website (with all the details and sample chapters), on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.fr, Amazon.jp, Amazon.de, BarnesAndNoble.com, and many more online and offline bookstores!
Cross-posted from http://linqinaction.net
This is a followup to the announcement of my session at the Université du SI.
J'ai annoncé récemment ma participation à l'événement Université du SI organisé par Octo Technology les 2 et 3 juillet prochains.
Des vidéos viennent d'être mises en ligne pour présenter certaines des sessions. Voici la vidéo que nous avons enregistrée avec Frédéric pour notre session intitulée Venez expérimenter en direct les dernières innovations de .NET :
Vous trouverez plus d'informations dans mon message d'annonce et sur le site de l'événement.
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