Paolo Pialorsi

VS2008 SP1 brings a new build of ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities

Paolo.Pialorsi — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:01:16 GMT

In the last days has been released the beta version of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, including a refresh build of ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities. Here you can find what's new in this build. And here you can find the breaking changes. These changes will affect also the samples and content of our new book, based on the previous build of ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities.

A new LINQ Query Provider: LINQ4SP

Paolo.Pialorsi — Sun, 18 May 2008 07:39:17 GMT

I've just seen the announcement of a new LINQ query provider targeting SharePoint contents. It looks really cool and interesting and I'm wondering to play with it. As soon as I started working on LINQ (3 years ago) I thought that a LINQ query provider for SharePoint would have been a good and useful example of a custom query provider implementation. Now that LINQ has been shipped such implementations are coming out, great!

New book "Programming Microsoft LINQ" available and site update

Paolo.Pialorsi — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:46:00 GMT

Starting from today we've updated the LINQ Books Web Site (http://www.programminglinq.com/) in order to support the new "Programming Microsoft LINQ" book that is publicly available since today (May 14th 2008).

In the download area you can find the whole set of code samples, while on Amazon you can order the physical book.

We hope you will appreciate our efforts to write a useful and complete (as much as we could) book about LINQ and its related technologies.

Introducing LINQ E-Book freely available

Paolo.Pialorsi — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:23:15 GMT

Our book is now freely available here as an E-Book in PDF format. I'd like to remind you that the book has been written against LINQ May 2007 CTP, however about 80% of its contents are still good for the RTM bits. In the meantime I and Marco are working on the next book about LINQ. Stay tuned ...

.NET 3.5 June CTP and ADO.NET EF June CTP

Paolo.Pialorsi — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:47:04 GMT

Today have been published the new June CTP refresh of .NET Framework 3.5 and ADO.NET Entity Framework. Many new features and changes are available in this last CTPs, in particular in the fields of ADO.NET EF.

LINQ to XSD - New preview alpha available

Paolo.Pialorsi — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:13:25 GMT

Has recently been released a new preview alpha (v. 0.2) of LINQ to XSD. You can download it from this link. In my opinion it is a great idea and I tried to anticipate something also in Ch. 6 of our book. Let's download and try it.