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Friday, September 16, 2005 4:34 PM

LINQ looks good, but DLINQ scares me

One of Microsoft's announcements at the PDC this week has been LINQ ( L anguage IN tegrated Q uery). Here's the elevator speech version: "LINQ enables developers to query objects, databases and XML using a unified programming model because LINQ makes...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:41 AM

[Tech-Ed] One of the best values at Tech-Ed (even if you're not an attendee)...

The hidden gem at Tech-Ed is the Microsoft booths in the Exhibit Hall . They have a separate booth for each technology - SQL Server, ASP.NET, all the different server products, etc., and the people at these booths are developers / dev leads / program...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:03 AM

[Tech-Ed] DEV320 Visual C# Best Practices: What's Wrong With this Code?

Good presentation - disguised a best practices talk as a quiz to keep it interesting. Much tougher to spot the problems then to nod along with a bullet points about writing good code. Not gonna try to summarize this - just point you the the slides . They...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:29 AM

[Tech-Ed] WIN321 Running IIS Web Farms: Tips and Tricks

I attended WIN321 Running IIS Web Farms: Tips and Tricks Monday. The slides are online here [updated], but here are some high points: Datacenter Overview $4 million anual datacenter budget - pretty cheap for what they do. Doing less with more - consolidation...
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Monday, May 24, 2004 12:24 AM

[Tech-Ed] BOF RSS Without the Blog

(don't worry, I'm not going to be able to attend that much of Tech-Ed so I'm not going to be blogging every single session) Ray Schraff lead a BOF session on uses of RSS beyond blogging. It was interesting, and he's a very bright guy. There were only...
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Sunday, May 23, 2004 11:54 PM

[Tech-Ed] BOF - Code Generation

Scott Hanselman lead a BOF on Code Generation. I agree with Andres - there was a lot of discussion on business rules definition, which was interesting but I think took away from more common uses of codegen. Peter Provost was talking about using the Code...
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