21 Aug, 2007
For those of you who do not want to grab the Visual Studio 2008 beta and/or wait for the release, I have created a Silverlight Project Template for Visual Studio 2005. This template makes it possible to develop Silverlight solutions under Visual Studio 2005. Grab the installer here if you can’t wait, or read on for further information. Read more...
8 Aug, 2007
I just installed Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 to see what the future holds for C#. The addition of LINQ has brought a variety of query keywords to the language. “Anything” can be queried; SQL databases (naturally), XML documents, and regular collections. Custom queryable objects can also be created by implementing IQueryable. Sadly, like every abstraction, these goodies all come at a cost. The question is how much? Read more...