http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html This article was a great overview of many of the aspects of functional programming. With what Micosoft is doing to the CLR and C# and VB it would seem that functional programming is making advances into the main stream. His article has imaginary Java samples...

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html This article was a great overview of many of the aspects of functional programming. With what Micosoft is doing to the CLR and C# and VB it would seem that functional programming is making advances into the main stream. His article has imaginary Java samples...

Roger Jennings has spotted very interesting information on Scott Guthrie's weblog. It's not like there is anything but excellent content on Scott's blog, but I haven't seen this kind of information elsewhere before. Scott has published a first post on using LINQ with ASP.NET projects a few days ago....

My article entitled Sample uses of LINQ, DLINQ and XLINQ is now available in English. In this article, we will see how to put LINQ, DLINQ and XLINQ in action. The goal is just to show how to use these technologies, and not to provide a target architecture or demonstrate optimal uses. The goal is not...

LINQ (including DLinq and XLinq) has just been udpated! There are many new features to discover. This update includes: Productivity enhancements via DLINQ designer and debugger support within the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. Support for a broader range of development scenarios thanks to new databinding and...

The first CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas" is available for download . The good news: it's available as a virtual machine! Partial Linq support is in there, but nothing close to what we get with the May CTP of Linq . Here are some of the included features: LINQ to Objects API (in the new System...

I finally got around to trying the Sept. CTP of Orcas. I loaded up the VPC images on VPC7 Beta (which seems to perform much better than VPC2004). If this is going to be the way that MS is going to release CTPs in the future here are a few suggestions: Don't have undo disks enabled. This just slows things...

The new pre-release of Visual Studio "Orcas" is now available! Here is what concerns LINQ in this CTP: ADO.NET is fully integrated with LINQ and offers many options for using LINQ in various scenarios: LINQ to SQL provides direct access to database tables from the programming environment, LINQ...

LINQ to Objects is a great improvement in .NET 3.5 to query in-memory collections. It offers a nice declarative query syntax, strong-typing and support for a rich set of operations. One of the things that LINQ to Objects does not offer is indexing. Indexing collections of objects could greatly improve...

Microsoft has just announced that the ADO.NET Entity Framework will not be shipped with Orcas (Visual Studio 2007(?) and .NET Framework 3.5). The previous news were that the ADO.NET EF would be released with Orcas, but without the designers, which would be released at some point afterwards. Finally,...