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With the introduction of Domain Specific Languages (DSL's) like LINQ right into the .net languages themselves, we become capable of becoming more focused on the domain of the problem space to which we're developing solutions. We're able to do Domain Driven Design (DDD) at a language level, and that's cool! What is really cool in addition, is that we don't lose out on the ability to go down to a lower level - the code we write with language-level DSL's is backwards compatible...
I think people really enjoyed our LINQ Talk last night! The slide deck I used (containing C# 3.0 language innovations) can be found here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
I'll be doing yet another talk on Linq tomorrow evening, this time joining up with Hilton . For those who haven't seen Linq yet, come along and check out this revolutionising new concept. And more importantly: snacks will be provided by the kind folks at Microsoft. Date: 19th April 2007 18:00 - 19:30 Venue: Microsoft, Mowbray, Cape Town ( directions ) Presenters: Ernst Kuschke & Hilton Giesenow Topic: LINQ Find out about the general-purpose query facilities added to the .NET Framework that apply...
Luke Hoban recently blogged about how he used LINQ to solve a physics problem . Could it be that C#, without being a functional language, now have some of the advantages the functional languages have? ;o) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Craig has been posting on the topic a bit lately, and innitially I wanted to respond to his latest post with a comment; it got so long that it warranted a post on itself. For those uninitiated ones, Linq-to-Sql is what used to be called DLinq - this will replace the ADO.NET code we currently use to access data in a relational database. It's important to note that Linq-to-Sql only supports SQL Server as a database . There are many reasons for this, one being that SQL code is generated by the framework...
At the last summit (2005) we got tons of "NDA" info, and this year everyone arrived eagerly awaiting news of the same callibre. The timing for the developer-side of it all (which affects my arena, as I ama C# MVP), however, is such that there really isn't too much new information to gather. We're getting close to the Orcas release date, and the C# team is mainly concentrating on that. Sure, there are lots of thoughts on the future, as well as .net 4.0 (which I can't really disclose) but most energy...
Over the last few weeks I discovered that Smart Tags in Visual Studio 2005 just weren't working anymore, but since I did not have time to investigate this too much I never gave thought to what the cause might be. Today I stumbled upon not only the cause, but also a fix ! The culprit is the May 2006 "Orcas" LINQ Preview (which is ultra-cool, by the way!!). Thanks Raimond . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!