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What kind of thing is Language Integrated Query, exactly? You can draw the line in a number of places, but I am going to cut it down to the core, where LINQ is a Domain Specific Language.   There are LINQ-enabling language features, i.e the language extensions of type ...

I never really got that excited about Silverlight 1.0, mainly because whilst it had a great core graphics engine and did video streaming very well, it's feature set was just not rich enough to make it really useful to applications that demanded deep functionality. One of the features that was clearly lacking was connectivity; you could not ...

SQL Server 2008 is upon us and if there is one feature about which I am somewhat excited (sad geek, I know) is the plethora of new data types designed purely to store dates and times. To explain the reasons for this excitement let me just list the problems with existing SQL types. The first major issue is that of resolution: Smalldatetime has ...

So I just got back from TechEd Barcelona, and I had a great conference in no small part due to the people I went with: Merrick Chaffer, James Dawson and Paul McMillan. This is a selection of some of Conchango's finest from the world of .Net development, infrastructure and SQL Server. One of the reasons the conference was so much more enjoyable ...