Unacceptable PDC08 Thoughts
Mike Pizzo and Jose Blakely summed it up quit nicely in their Microsoft .NET framework data access from a to z preconf talk.
LINQ to SQL strongly typed SQL Server database.
LINQ to Entities for flexible mapping to relational data.
Sitting through most of this session (and I plan on staying a little longer) I must admit it really captures the a to z in regards to Microsoft's data access technologies. I haven't heard many new things and to be honest I'm mostly concentrating on the format they use to bring this story and to improve my own Data Access/Entity Framework talks.
This also allowed me to do a factory restore of my Lenovo Thinkpad which decided to quit on me after I installed the most recent updates through their update manager. The wireless drivers where un-repairable fubarred by this. Thanks to Micorsoft's fast wireless network I was (am, still downloading) able to download most of the stuff I need to get some work done. It crossed my mind today how my life would be on an Apple. Unacceptable thoughts ;)