Here’s a great article from IanG on the what the “var” keyword is all about in C# 3.0. If you’re still not quite sure you understand what all the fuss is about, this article will definitely help clear things up for you.

Still not sure what LINQ’s all about or why it’s “so freakin’ cool”? Well check out the 101 LINQ samples up on MSDN. WARNING: You may want to put a bib on before clicking through to the article as involuntary drooling may ensue shortly after you begin reading. ;P

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 […]

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 […]

The hottest technology of the PDC so far is LINQ for me. I’m a huge fan of O/R mappers and have written my own and so it’s quite interesting to see how DLINQ has come together. Anders just made a comment like “With DLINQ we allow you to return only partial object queries, no other O/R […]