Monthly Archives: November 2008

VS 2010: It’s Time to Play

Posted on November 16, 2008 by

Are you ready to ride the next generation platform wave? Here are two links to get you started with Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, C# 4, F#, the Parallel Computing Platform, and many other new technologies revealed at the Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Better N-Tier Concurrency Management for the Entity Framework

Posted on November 8, 2008 by

I just wrote an article for MSDN Magazine (due out in December) about developing n-tier applications for both LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework. While researching the topic, I noticed a certain awkwardness with the Entity Framework API when … Continue reading →

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The Future of LINQ to SQL Looks Bleak

Posted on November 5, 2008 by

We now have a fairly clear message from Microsoft that LINQ to SQL will be deprecated in favor of the Entity Framework: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/31/clarifying-the-message-on-l2s-futures.aspx This is basically an admission that coming out with two competing relational data access technologies was not … Continue reading →

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Karisma: Our Surprise Baby!

Posted on November 1, 2008 by

At 3 am on the morning of October 31st, my wife Zuzana delivered our second child: Karisma Sarah Elizabeth Sneed. To everyone’s amazement, the baby arrived while we were still at home, before we had the chance to get in … Continue reading →

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