Holidays are coming so you will have time to learn. If you are interested in Visual Studio 2008 you may find the following resources valuable: Free e-learning: Clinic 5230: Developing Enhanced Web Experiences with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions Free e-books: http://csna01.libredigital.com/ Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo ...

I mentioned in previous blog posts the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit and the SQL Server 2008 CTP5. Now you can download virtual machines to test them:  - Visual Studio 2008 Rhythm Training Virtual PC (Vista) (EXPIRES ON 16 DECEMBER 2007) - Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (November 2007) ...

The meeting was just fine, we didn't keep our promise that it will be a 2 hours and a half meeting but no one complained (yet) about the extra hour For those interested in the pictures from the event take a look here. The resources I mentioned today are: MCP Live Meeting: SQL Server 2008 and Your Microsoft Certifications (Session ...

If you work with LINQ to SQL then you might want to take a look at this posts of Dinesh Kulkarni: LINQ to SQL: What is NOT in RTM (V1)  LINQ to SQL: features not in the designer / SqlMetal LINQ to SQL breaking changes from beta2 to RTM (compiled from my LINQ forum posts)  Also you may wanna check this free lab MSDN Virtual Lab: ...

SQL Server 2008 is at the door and the same stands for Visual Studio 2008. The data access strategy is changing and you don't know where to start. I gathered some starting resource that you may use for that: Whitepapers and blog posts The ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview Next-Generation Data Access: Making the Conceptual Level ...

Si doua webcast-uri: MSDN Webcast: Framework Masterclass: LINQ to SQL (Level 200) –  Monday, September 10, 2007 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Microsoft .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ) provides a common way to work with data in your applications. In this session, we dive into how LINQ provides methods to work with ...

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