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Visual Studio 2008 Released for MSDN Subscribers
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The LINQ Dilemma
Let me start off by saying that I'm a huge fan of Language Integrated Query (LINQ). If you've ever had to write code to loop through objects to locate properties and then filter the collection based upon specific values then you'll definitely have an appreciation for what LINQ has to offer. It's a phenomenal technology that will definitely make developing applications a more productive process. Scott Guthrie has some really nice tutorials that help jumpstart learning more about LINQ and LINQ to SQL that you can view here. For those that haven't seen many LINQ samples, here's a simple example of using LINQ to filter a collection of Customer types based upon a Country property:
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.NET Framework 3.5 Common Types and Namespaces Poster
I recently came across a new poster Microsoft released that provides a nice view of common types and namespaces in the .NET Framework 3.5. You can download a PDF version of the poster here.