In this session Jon Skeet, author of Manning's C# In Depth, explains the "Push LINQ" framework he developed with Marc Gravell.

The "standard" LINQ to Objects is based on IEnumerable, involving the consumer "pulling" data from a supplier. This works very well in many cases, but has some un...

LINQ is an internal DSL provided by C# for accessing streams of data. We can leverage the same feature set added to the language to make LINQ to author our own internal DSLs. In this session Ian introduces you to the ideas behind Internal DSLs and shows how C# 3.5 helps you to write them.

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The next version of the Entity Framework adds scenarios in the areas of model driven development, domain driven development, simplicity, and integratio...

In the near future, applications will be developed using a combination of custom application code and online building block services, including data-ce...

In Visual Basic 9.0, XML becomes a built-in data type with a rich editing experience that completely eliminates the conceptual barrier between the code...