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...

Like I said before , this as been on the back of my mind for a while. A while back I introduced a way to get the MethodInfo of a method in a strongly typed way using LINQ , and that's how I'm going to make Reflective Mocks more Natural . Well, it's as easy as this: public static class MockExtender {...

As announced by Somasegar , the first preview of ParallelFX (Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework) is now available. ParallelFX runs on .NET FX 3.5 , and relies on features available in C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 and includes: Imperative data and task parallelism APIs, including parallel for and foreach...

Dinesh Kulkarni , now ex-program manager on the LINQ to SQL project, gives on his blog a list of what will not be included in the first version of LINQ to SQL . These are important restrictions to know if you haven't followed the story about LINQ to SQL so far and you plan to use it. Cross-posted from...

You may have seen a lot of messages about the launch date for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. According to this announcement , Microsoft has planned a grouped launch event in Los Angeles for February 27, 2008. This does not mean that all the products will be released at that...

Microsoft has published the details of Silverlight at MIX07. Apparently, this is going to be huge! You can get an overview of what's in the box for developers by taking a look at the developer reference poster . It's interesting to note that the supported languages are C#, VB, JScript, IronPython...

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,...

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...

Jeremy Miller has pointed out there is work afoot to use Linq as a front-end for NHibernate . ScottGu mentioned earlier that Linq was designed for this kind of interoperability (point #3 under the heading "Built-in System.Linq Extension Methods" which specifically mentions NHibernate et al). It's nice...

Microsoft has just released a new Orcas preview. This new version is supposed to include almost all the functionality from the LINQ May 2006 CTP and more. LINQ features in this version include: VB 9.0: Query Expressions (Basic querying, filtering, and ordering support); Object Initializers; Extension...