Archives
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Jasper and Astoria, projects to keep an eye on
Microsoft has just announced two new projects at MIX '07: Jasper and Astoria (codenames). Both tools are available for download as CTPs (Community Technology Previews, aka alphas).
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ADO.NET Entity Framework not in Orcas
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, Microsoft has decided to ship the ADO.NET Entity Framework "during the first half of 2008 as an update to Orcas".
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Using configSource to split configuration files
As Nikhil Kothari writes in his blog, he's started to use the configSource attribute to split configuration files into smaller pieces.
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i4o, indexed LINQ to Objects
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 the performance of queries. Some people realized this and Aaron Erickson even extended LINQ to Objects to provide support for indexing. i4o (indexes for objects) is the solution he proposes. i4o is available on CodePlex and described in Aaron's weblog.
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New LINQ flavors: LINQ to Flickr, LINQ to NHibernate, LINQ to LDAP
In the spirit of LINQ to Amazon now comes LINQ to Flickr. Mohammed Hossam El-Din (Bashmohandes) proposes an implementation that is very close to what I created with LINQ to Amazon, except that this time it's the Flickr API that is used thanks to the FlickrNet library. I'm quite sure we will soon see more LINQ flavors appear to query various data sources. There is already work started to create LINQ to NHibernate and LINQ to LDAP APIs, for example.
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PageMethods is now open source
I've been quiet lately about PageMethods because other projects kept me busy and contrarily to what I wished, I haven't been able to create PageMethods Pro last year.
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Vote for SharpToolbox at the asp.netPRO Readers' Choice Awards
It's the period of the year when asp.netPRO runs the asp.netPRO Readers' Choice Awards. It's time for you to vote for your preferred ASP.NET products and resources for 2007.
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MVP in 2007
My fourth year as a Microsoft MVP starts today :-)
You can expect a lot of continued or new .NET community projects this year, including SharpToolbox.com, the LINQ in Action book, LinqInAction.net, proagora.com, PageMethods and more...