For this post I will assume you are familiar with Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and Unity. There are a couple of tutorials out there that show you the basics of all of these. OK, say you have got a class Widget that others depend upon, and that you have an interface IWidget to loosen the...
Linq query providers appear all over the place. Some say "Linq to Everything" to refer to all flavors of Linq that are out there: Linq to Objects, XML, SQL, DataSets, SharePoint, Amazon, Flickr, and so on. These are generally referred to as Linq query providers. However, a query provider is...
Syndication Syndication is becoming more and more popular. In essence, it is just some form of representation of data, and not only applicable to weblogs and news items. The .NET Framework 3.5 (WCF in particular) comes with a syndication API that allows providing and constructing new RSS or ATOM feeds...
It took a couple of days to wind down again. The 2007 edition of the Dutch Developer Days were exciting and excellent. It was real nice to meet nearly everybody (or so it feels). I did get around to do both presentations on Linq and robotics. The Microsoft Robotics session was scheduled after all. So...
On June 13th and 14th I will be speaking at the Developer Days 2007 in Amsterdam, together with a lot of renowned national and international speakers . My talk is entitled " Applied Linq " and will cover Linq beyond the basics and give an impression of how Linq can be applied in "everyday" situations...