How fast can you create a single-page, coding-free, AJAX-enhanced, Linq-driven Web application from scratch in VS 2008v2/VWD? Very fast, I'll bet. I've prepared these instructional steps. Your challenge is to follow them closely and report back how many minutes/seconds it took. You only get one shot...

Building functions instead of expression trees. The functional programming features of the latest versions of C# allow developers to harness a very expressive programming paradigm to solve challenges in new, elegant ways. Two of the very interesting new features are the “Func<>” delegate and the...