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  • Orcas September CTP virtual PC images available !!

    You can now download virtual PC images of Orcas September CTP :) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82243606-d16d-445c-8949-9ee8c10cda2e&DisplayLang=en
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Sep 29 2006
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  • ADO.NET Entity Framework August CTP available now !

    Download the ADO.NET Entity Framework August CTP from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b68f6f53-ec87-4122-b1c8-ee24a043bf72&DisplayLang=en
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Aug 16 2006
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  • XML and OO (where's the wires ?)

    I was just reading Ralf's post about some future directions for XML and one thing that struck me is there is still a mismatch between "Data" and "OO". XML is really just descriptive data, at least it is at present. Of course it doesn't have to be, it could just as easily include event wire up, just as...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Jul 20 2006
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  • ADO.Next Entity Framework

    The good oil about the ADO.NET Entity Framework can be found via the MS data site . http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ Make sure you check out the ADO.NET entity framework document just released .
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sat, Jun 17 2006
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  • Extension methods : Are they better than the real McCoy ?

    I was just reading Avner's blog entry about the latest LINQ bits and VB 9.0 , in particular the bit about the Value Extension Property. How cool is that !!!! :) So it occurred to me that perhaps extension properties are better than "normal" properties. Because an extension property is basically a shared...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sat, May 13 2006
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  • It's official: From… Select

    Yah !! the good news is that VB will be going with the From.. Select style of syntax in Orcas rather than Select.. From. The From ..Select syntax has many advantages, the biggest being a great intellisense story. I also think it is good is distinguishes itself from TSql, because although DLinq may use...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, May 5 2006
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  • Parenthesized expressions (more on Closures)

    since Scott said such nice things about my last post on closures , I thought I'd add some quick references from the language spec I stumbled upon today: 11.4.2 Parenthesized Expressions A parenthesized expression consists of an expression enclosed in parentheses. A parenthesized expression is classified...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Apr 23 2006
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  • Erik Meijer's Dev Days 2006 presentation

    A great set of power point slides from Erik's 2006 Dev Days presentation on VB and LINQ . feel that VB love !
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sat, Apr 8 2006
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  • closures continued.. ByRef, ByVal and ()

    continuing the discussion on closures …. A rarely used, somewhat obscure feature of VB, is by enclosing a variable in ()'s it is passed ByVal instead of ByRef. Consider the following code: (1) Dim s As String = "hello" Foo(s) Console.Writeline(s) versus: (2) Dim s As String = "hello" Foo((s)) Console...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sat, Apr 8 2006
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  • XML DOM API is a b*tch

    Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman have put out a new paper on XML and LINQ and VB . It's a good short read . For a quick taste of the document, here's the opening sentence: Programming against XML using the DOM API today is a b*tch. :) One thing to be aware of though is some of the syntax is possibly out...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Apr 7 2006
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  • Closures… Implicit or Explicit ??

    A recent discussion on Paul's blog about local variables scope and lifetime led the discussion to that of closures. So maybe this is a good time to look at closures in general…. Personally, I prefer to think of "closures" as being "state machines". That is their primary purpose is to maintain state....
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Apr 5 2006
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  • Get the latest VB LINQ bits !!

    The VB LINQ preview has been updated , and now includes support for XML even better as well as DLINQ support and a version of sqlmetal that will generate both VB and C# classes. But wait, there's more ..... The VB team actually wants to hear from YOU !! So download today and give them your feedback....
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Jan 17 2006
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  • Never code in XSLT again !!

    A really cool side effect of what is planned for VB9 , is you will never have to code in XSLT ever again ! VB9 has full support for XML literals, querying and manipulating XML with LINQ and specifically XLINQ , and it also has the dynamic features such as late binding and dynamic interfaces. Put it all...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Oct 5 2005
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  • Beyond LINQ ...

    Without doubt, there's some pretty cool stuff coming our way with LINQ, especially XLINQ in VB And although I've seen some criticism of DLINQ, I think it advances us miles ahead of where we are today. The challenge there now is for 3rd party ORM vendors to integrate that in a seamless way, and for Microsoft...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Sep 18 2005
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  • Erik Meijer on LINQ

    A great post by Erik on LINQ and the language of choice :D
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Sep 13 2005
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  • The future's so bright ....

    Stop everything and check out the VB9 language futures at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/ there's even an example compiler you can run with the Beta of VS.NET 2005 !! So make sure you check out the LINQ docuement then the DLINQ and XLINQ ones as well.. oh and of course the VB 9.0 one too My...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Sep 13 2005
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  • Now this is REALLy BIG !!

    Yag 's blogging about the PDC and he's let the cat out of the bag ... well almost... That's right, this Friday stay tuned to your PC's for some amazing videos about the future of programming. Paul Vick and Amanda Silver will rock your world with the amazing stuff they, Yag , Erik Meijer and countless...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Sep 11 2005
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  • VB - set to dominate !!

    Just finished watching another great channel 9 video . It really should have been two parts, but it's worth watching the whole thing. The real kicker stuff comes in about 40 minutes or so into the tape. It's really interesting to hear the talk about dynamic languages with Erik Meijer and of course Joel...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sat, Aug 27 2005
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  • query comprehensions ?

    Oh, Paul is such a tease !! People will be asking what are "query comprehensions", what are "object initializers", and what's this really cool dynamic programming that VB's getting that C# isn't ? Well I'm not allowed to tell ya, at least not till after PDC. I think it's because if those script kiddies...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Aug 4 2005
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  • So what is in Paul's talk ?

    The now famous (or should that be notorious ? ;) ) Paul Vick will be presenting on the future of VB.NET at the PDC . At present his abstract is a little vague , only mentioning: language features that will improve developer productivity, including new features that enable optimized queries over objects...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Jul 18 2005
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