ORM Product Writers Getting Down on LINQ, but Why?

I’m gonna come across as defending MS here, but really I just think this assesment of LINQ from Frans Bouma is just completely off base. LINQ has nothing to do with ORM at its core, instead it enables richer ORM scenarios with natural language query extensions for developers. If you want to talk about DLINQ, well […]

C# 3.0 – Now an OO, Functional and Prototypical langauge? :)

Ok, so I just finished the C# 3.0 session given by Anders. Basically C# 3.0 is receiving functional style programming through the addition of lambda expressions. Even scarier is that the lamba expressions can be compiled into actual IL or into an expression tree which custom methods can turn into something like a SQL statement […]

Begging For Quartz

Quartz is the codename for an web development IDE, part of the Expression suite, that is targeted at web designers/developers. It’s undeniably the best implementation of web development environment out of Microsoft ever. It blows VS.NET off the face of the Earth with it’s support for designing web sites with respect to standards technologies (CSS, [X|D]HTML, XSLT, etc.). It also […]