This year's edition was great, maybe even the nicest ever. Noordwijkerhout and its hotel annex conference venue are a great place to stay. The previous years at Papendal, Arnhem were very nice, but I guess this one tops it. Anyway, I met loads of people, from famous to acquaintances from the community...
Past Monday and Tuesday the annual Software Developer Conference (SDC, before 2004 known as the Conference to the Max) was held in Papendal, Arnhem again. Loads of great national and international speakers where there to educate and entertain the 450 participants. The vibe was good and I think everybody...
A couple of days ago the October 2006 CTP of Visual Studio Orcas appeared. Loads of people blogged about it appearing, but I get the impression not a lot of people actually played with it. In the meantime Pablo Castro from the ADO.NET data team just posted on their weblog that: “ Also, since the ADO...
Tonight I browsed some more through the documentation of DLinq (I’ll refer to Linq to SQL this way, because it is shorter and until the namespace is changed from System.Data.DLinq). In particular I looked at the document ‘DLinq Overview for C# Developers’. There is a section called...
Most of the samples that have been around on Linq to SQL (formerly called DLinq) use CLR types that are annotated using attributes, such Column and Association. The System.Data.DLinq.DataContext class extracts the metadata during runtime. With this information it knows how to build SQL statements from...
Scott Guthrie has done a demo in his two part Tech Ed 2006 talk and also showed a demo of the Blinq prototype. Unfortunately I was not at TechEd, but he posted on it . Since Blinq is up on the Sandbox page of the ASP.NET website , I decided to check it out. Blinq creates a website built on top of a SQL...
A while ago I blogged about Class-A participating in the RAD Race 2006 . The team that spent two days in a too small room with about 25 other people consisted of Dennis van der Stelt and myself. We had to wait quite a while to get the results, but they were announced today at the Database Systems 2006...